You're Robbing Yourself

Business Insider:

"Game of Thrones"                                            7.2 Million

"The Walking Dead"                                          4.7 Million

"Pretty Little Liars"                                            3.8 Million

"The Flash"                                                         3.1 Million

"The Big Bang Theory"                                      2.9 Million

"Stranger Things"                                               2.5 Million

"Quantico"                                                          2.1 Million

These incredibly famous tv shows were dubbed most popular in 2016, according to "Business Insider".   This chart shows that the average person (12-17) spends 15.29 hours weekly making those tv shows "most popular".   

                                      

                                                              (recode.net)

The youth of today are completely disregarding nature due to technology; the never ending distraction.  The burning question is "why do so many people no longer consider the physical world worth watching?" (Louv).  Henry David Thoreau wrote an entire piece dedicated to nature, but that was in 1836.  Times have indeed changed.  I remember when I was a kid every Christmas my family and I would drive up to Grand Rapids to visit family.  It's a good 2-hour trip that was always full of   "I-Spy" and "The License Plate Game".  When those games were done I remember looking out of the window and being in utter awe of the winter wonderland surrounding me.  When we arrived we would go out on my father's uncle's Four-Wheeler and ride it out into the brisk air down to the dirt track.  Even now I can just stare out of the window thinking of nothing in particular, just admiring nature for what it truly is; beautiful.  The youth now is being robbed by themselves of this priceless treasure.  Sure, every once in a while they might glance up from their show and see a passing tree for a split second, but then it's gone and the next episode has started.  As humans occupying nature as our home we have an obligation to at least "consider the past and dream of the future, and" through the glass window separating us "watch it all go by un the blink of an eye" (Louv).