Living space and our quality of life
Animals grow up in the wild, they have access to spacious playgrounds, luscious grazing lands, and a diverse hunting environment.
Some of them build nests or sophisticated underground mazes. These dwelling places serve a certain purpose that go from the protection of the newborns from predators, to storing food, to protecting themselves from the elements.
These "homes" have never interfered with their mobility, or constricted their movements.
The wilderness which is their home, affords them as much space as they need.
humans also need space. Empty expanses relax them, open up their appetite, and enhance their mood.
We all had the experience of gazing aimlessly at the horizon, looking in amazement at vast open spaces, or simply enjoying the view from a high-rise building on a quiet night.
Kids also need space to expend the huge amounts of energy they have.
They need to run, to scream, to laugh ,to fall down, to scratch their knees, and of course be with other kids.
This is essential to their growth. A daily dosage of outdoor activity contributes heavily to giving them a balanced, happy life.
Our houses are getting smaller, the open spaces are getting rarer, and the parents are getting busier with their lives at the expense of their kids who find themselves in very constricted environments that limit their movement, and keep their bottled up energy repressed.
It all contributes to a deluge of ailments and imbalances that could affect their life, and severely hinder their development.
We are moving slowly and inadvertently into a life that takes place for the most part within the walls of our dwellings.
We buy online instead of walking to shops, we order our food from our sofas instead of going out and socializing and we rather snuggle under a warm blanket with our favorite snacks, staring at fictional characters moving on a lifeless screen than taking a stroll outside to oxygenate our bodies, and our minds.
We are not fit for this sedentary, asocial lifestyle, where people stare at phone screens for most of the day, and send messages instead of knocking on doors.
This is essential to their growth. A daily dosage of outdoor activity contributes heavily to giving them a balanced, happy life.
Our houses are getting smaller, the open spaces are getting rarer, and the parents are getting busier with their lives at the expense of their kids who find themselves in very constricted environments that limit their movement, and keep their bottled up energy repressed.
It all contributes to a deluge of ailments and imbalances that could affect their life, and severely hinder their development.
We are moving slowly and inadvertently into a life that takes place for the most part within the walls of our dwellings.
We buy online instead of walking to shops, we order our food from our sofas instead of going out and socializing and we rather snuggle under a warm blanket with our favorite snacks, staring at fictional characters moving on a lifeless screen than taking a stroll outside to oxygenate our bodies, and our minds.
We are not fit for this sedentary, asocial lifestyle, where people stare at phone screens for most of the day, and send messages instead of knocking on doors.
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