"Dónde diablos jugaráran los pobres ninos? ...Se esta partiendo el mundo, ya no hay lugar" translation-"Where will those poor children play? The world is breaking, there's no more room"
-Maná
What happened to the wide open spaces and rolling hills?
It seems like there used to be so much more room to move around in an children were constantly outdoors doing chores, running through fields and just enjoying themselves.
Nowdays they don't have as many opportunities to do that. A lot of kids live in cities or urban areas where there isn't much opportunity to go and rn through a field
Children are quite good at adapting to circumstances though and are able to find things to do pretty much anywhere, but I really connected with the words of this song because it is sad.
Even kids that have the space to go out and play in often keep themselves indoors and play video games and check facebook.
So not only do we have to worry about the environmental damage that is talked about this song, but kids themselves are finding ways to avoid going out into nature.
This also, for some reason, makes me think of the song "Where have all the flowers gone" which talks about war and how that affects our lives. All the flowers have gone to girls, the girls have all gone the men,the men have gone off to be soldiers in the war, the soldiers have all gone to graves and the graveyards have turned into flowers.
I think, the reason it brought this song to mind is that, not only are we faced with the question of where children are going to play, but also what is going to happen to them when they grow up. War is a very real threat in many countries, a lot of young people are enlisting in the army. That is where they end up going to "play" since often they have no other choice.
What can we do to clean this world up?
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