Our life has been taken over by modern technology, for good of course. Young people celebrate the fast speed that technology can move at. But there is a group of people who cannot1.
It is the group of people who are caught up between traditional and2society, sort of like the middle child in technological advancement — not exactly old and resisting change, but trying very hard to become modernized, ending up being stuck in the middle. They are 40 to 60 years old and3the latest iPhone or Samsung phone or Huawei. They buy an iPad just4they can afford to, and play the same games on a larger screen.
They are almost like the teenagers five years ago,5on their phones playing a game or using social media. They're everywhere. And I saw something today that made me extremely6.
On a train, a mother was7playing a Candy Crush like game. Her daughter was sitting beside her. The little girl, about five years old, was talking to her mother about her day,8the next stop's name cheerily—with obviously desperate attempts to get her mother's9.
The mother? All she did was nod and say the occasional "mmhm". With her eyes on the10 ， she concentrated on completing the level. I watched the girl make a final attempt to get her mom to look at her, and when she failed, she sighed and fell silent and defeated.
It broke my heart, and got me11：What kind of game can make you12that you have the most beautiful thing in the world, a person you love with all your heart? What does it13when you won't even look into her eyes or listen to her?
The scene was so familiar years ago when parents14that their children were too interested in their mobile devices. Look at how the tables have turned now. I'm15whether to laugh or to cry. But all I can do now is hope that this storm will pass.
