I can't imagine how hard it is now to be a parent. When I was kid, parents probably only had to deal with television. Or at least, the world was once a better place to live and all kind of badness was just a dystopia. When I was growing up parents faced another challenge, internet, which at that time people still believed that the harm of internet was merely about pornography. Now, despite all benefits that it brings, we also cannot measure how detrimental internet can be.
Now I've grown up and spent most of my time at office. The only chance that I can sit back and relax watching TV is after midnight or before heading to office. At that very short period of time, the information that I can get from the black magic box that used to bring me joy is that all badness which used to dystopia, now it exist in the world I'm living in. In the country I'm residing. In the next door. All the crimes, scandals, and other stuffs that even I as an adult hardly process. I don't think that kids deserve to see that kind of thing. They deserve to get the idea that they will live a better life in a better world when they grow up.
I can't imagine if I have kids someday, how I'm gonna protect them from that harms. How I'm gonna plant the idea that the word will be a better place. That they should focus on their dream instead of focus on what they shouldn't do, feel, or see.
It is not as simple as showing what's wrong or right. Because in this modern society, I have to admit that the mixture of right or wrong concept is inevitable. Moreover when I myself develop a moderate and liberal way of thinking where I don't take a hard stance in defining right or wrong. Black or white. Especially with my tendency to consider everything is like two sides of coin which makes everything fall into a grey area instead of black or white.
But I promise, if I get a chance to be a parent. Or if God gives me the chance. I will not let them to lose faith in the life that they want to portray. I will show them that the world is more than just the black, white, and grey. That it is full of color that's why they shouldn't be trapped in only one of it.
If I get the chance.
