A 4 year old kid and his two precious stones

While I was waiting at the bus-stop for my bus to arrive, this kid took all my attention with his joyful, creative experiments without getting tired. No, I'm definitely not talking about that kid who got two ruby stones from his aunt on his first birthday. I'm talking about that kid who is very happy playing on a footpath amidst a sunny weather. He just had a pair of stones and each was of about a size of cricket ball. As I was looking at him, he kept the stones side by side and started pushing them forwards until the color of the tile on the footpath got changed. After doing this for a couple of times, he then started pushing one stone at a time and I was wondering what will he do next. And to my surprise the next combination was one stone above the other.

As he plays for few more minutes, he takes a strategic break roaming around his mom who was feeding her younger baby with a liquid (not sure if it's clean...not sure if it's milk water…) and begging for money.

This scene made me think about happiness, creativity, hard work, persistence. All these aspects are unknowingly displayed by the kid and here I have a question, “Why do they start disappearing as the kid grows in this 21st century?”

Happiness:

Study says that 50% of our happiness doesn't depend on the job we do, the family we are a part of, education we pursue, colleagues, vehicle we own, money we have etc. It all depends on a simple two letter word 'us’. And the happiness with which the kid was playing with the stones is just an example. Nowadays due to the influence of social media, many of us have unconsciously given the remote of your happiness to those people who live/ react to our post/ pictures. Isn't the right time that we rethink?

Creativity:

Though he had only 2 stones, the kid found different ways of arranging them and helped himself by not getting bored. Creativity follows thinking and everyone of us need to have our own time to analyze and think so that we step into the circle of creativity. If we choose to be socially available most of the time through any of the possible networking sites/ apps, aren't we degrading our chances to be more creative?

Hard work & Persistence:

We often listen people saying that it's more of smart work that's key rather than hard work. But that doesn't apply everywhere and importantly in maintaining relationships (with colleagues, friends, relatives etc.) Using shorter, easier ways through social media and expecting the maintain tougher rather important relationships is not a good idea and won't work for longer duration. Probably we should start thinking if an emoji can replace our emotions. I don't think they can, do you?