Faulty Nickname

These days I find myself reminiscing on those times when I, as a child, and other children

used to play around in the yard, poor but barefoot, happy and free.

Are today's children happier now?

Spending most of their time on the tablets, computers, phones

and social media sites aside from going to school?

Are they equally as free, barefoot, happy, and thrill-seeking as we were in the past?

Will they, the cute little newcomers to the world,

ever experience as much fun

as we had?

Or am I being a little too sensitive? Now that I'm an adult and no longer as wild, barefoot - thrill-seeking as I used to be?

Or maybe it's that I should be happy in the peace and joy

that I have in front of me rather than nickname that peace as boredom creating the air of an

ingrate around me.