One Shot Stories

The Wish

I was marking my students homework one night after dinner. My husband was sitting nearby, playing game on his phone. Suddenly, tears welled up in my eyes. "Why are you crying my dear?" My husband asked. Yesterday I gave my class a writing assignment called, my wish," I told him. "Okay, and what's making you cry?" He asked again, keeping one eye on his game.

"The last paper moved me so much, it made me cry." I said. "What about it made you cry?" "Listen, I'll read it to you." I replied, wiping my tears.

"My parents love their smartphone very much. They care about their smartphone so much that sometimes they forget to care about me. When my father comes home from work tired, he has time for his smartphone but not for me. When my parents are doing something important work and their phone start ringing, they will answer it right away, but they will not answer me. Even when I am crying. They play games on their phones, but not with me. When they are talking to someone on their phone, they never listen to me, even if I am telling them something important. So; my wish is to become a smartphone."

Now it was my husband who wiped his eyes. "Who wrote this?" My husband asked quietly. I looked up at him and said.. "Our son."

Let us not sacrifice our family and relationship over the pursuit of material things. Smartphones are here to make our lives easier but not to control us, make us addicted and unsociable. Its not too late to return to your real family life, back to the old days when we didn't have the Internet and computer games.

"Can your phone give you love?"