Children, Culture and Games

My daughter has a few close friends from school, whom she calls BFFs, and they share similar interests like artsy stuff, reading books and something else which I don’t pretend I know. But sometimes she does relate about how her friends do this or that differently compared to her doing it, so despite their similarities, they have their differences. At least that’s what I gathered.

Today she invited her friends over and they had a good time. When I went down to the living room, I saw that they were playing games on the TV, and when I turn around to the girls, I see the same bulging eyes, slightly gaping mouths with their fingers mashing buttons. My smaller daughter went past them a few times to get something, and they merely bend their heads to bypass here, total disregard of the obstruction. In short they were engrossed.

Looking at the scenario, where three different girls, from three different backgrounds, ethnicity and possibly countries, yet have the same expressions while watching the television and playing games, I thought to myself this is an example of how we humans are much alike than what we would like to think. And it would be visible more often if we spend more time with each other, instead of against one another.

Here’s to world peace and video games.

Thank you for reading.