No imagination

I was perusing the Black Friday sales (why is it called that anyway) and noticed something in one of the ads. My first thought was, "That is so cool!" My second thought was, "Actually, that's kind of sad."

What was it? It was an ad for a Spiderman glove that shoots webs.

I remember pretending to be Spiderman when I was a kid, with nothing more than my imagination, and maybe some blue and red sweats on. I always thought it would be cool to be able to shoot real webs from my wrists... but now that the technology has been realized, I'm not so sure it's for the better.

Kids these days have more realistic toys, more technologically impressive toys, and more options than ever before. Somehow I feel like some of the creativity and imagination that goes into childhood play is being taken away in the name of sales and profits.

I think I'd prefer imagination over technology.