The great realisation

TELL me the one about the virus again, then I’ll go to bed But my boy, you’re growing weary, sleepy thoughts about your head. Please! That one’s my favourite. I promise just once more Okay, snuggle down my boy, though I know you know full well The story starts before then, in a world I once dwelled ‘ It was a world of waste and wonder, of poverty and plenty Back before we understood why hindsight’s 2020’ ‘You see the people people came up with companies to trade across all lands. But they swelled and got bigger than we could ever have planned ‘We’d always had our wants, but now it got so quick. You could have everything you dreamed of in a day and with a click. ‘We noticed families had stopped talking. That’s not to say they never But the meaning must have melted and the work life balance broke. ‘And the children’s eyes got squarer and every toddler had a phone. They filtered out the imperfections but amidst the noise, they felt alone.