I am having to get used to a completely different way of living.

Like many others of my generation technology is taking over our lives, and if we do not learn, at least the basics, were are going to find modern living very difficult.

Socialising, for the young, at least appears to take place mainly on a mobile device, either a phone or a tablet, and it is becoming quite unusual to walk down the street and not see people with phones glued to their ear. I was in a restaurant one evening recently and their was a couple at the next table, who, after ordering the food and drink, proceeded to get out their mobile phones and either send or receive messages, and during the time they were in the restaurant, very little conversation ensued. Perhaps they were communicating with each other by text?

No one appears to notice what is going on around them, which brings me on to the state of many towns and cities in the U.K.  Looking around me at the decay and desolation of the Town centres brings me to the conclusion that either people do not look at the environment in which they live, as they are so busy on their mobile devices, or they do not care.

How can we blame the Government or the local Councils if we are all prepared to accept closed down town centre shops, run down buildings and charity shops as the only places left to visit in town  c entres?

Surely if we all made enough fuss, attended council meetings, wrote to M.Ps and Councillors on a regular basis the Powers that Be would start and pay attention?

A business woman, a very successful one at that, once said to me,

“if you expect nothing, nothing is what you will get”

Surely the least we can expect is Town and City centres that are alive and interesting and look as if someone cares? Do we all really want out of town shopping Malls, all looking identical whatever town you are in?  In a Country as successful as the United Kingdom, there has to be a few local people up and down the Country who can do something to keep town and city centres alive?

Or are we all quite content to let our environment decay while we sit in front of a computer screen and conduct our lives on line?

No one can change the situation but yourself, but it actually take a little effort. Ideas and complaints are no good without action.