The Horrors of Our Mind [COMPLETED]

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Children grew up only seeing screens and bright flashes of light, never a face. Never tucked into bed, never welcomed home after school with a bright smile and a hug. Only static and a bright screen with the flashing lights capturing the moments they deem worthy. Every now and then, they would make a sound other than static, a little bird tweet, or a little chime, but soon after, it would be drowned out with the sounds of static and hums.

The neglect the children received affected them more and more each passing day, they longed for attention, anything they could get, so they would act out. Do something amazing, or perhaps something dangerous. Bake a cake, climb a tree, ride their bike, climb to the roof of a skyscraper, stand on the edge for any attention from the screens they live with.  Children will do anything to be liked.

By doing this, all screens would turn to them and the lights would start frantically flashing at them, with the sounds of shutters opening and closing, capturing the moment. After, the screens would stop flashing, then start making chirps, hums, and rings that echo against the blank walls. Once the moment was over, however, the children would be left alone once again, stranded in an empty house full of screens who couldn't care about the young ones around.

This neglect doesn't last long, however. Around the children's 13th birthday, the screens take them away, only to return with another screen, and the child to be gone. The new screen flashes more than the other screens, as it sees the world to be a marvelous place.

The children get taken and are turned into screens, the world slowly depleting of any human life. No one to keep family names going, no one to keep the human race alive. Once you're 13, you're taken and turned into a screen. Your voice ripped away from you, only to be replaced with static, humming, and rings. Your eyes are taken, replaced with a camera that flashes.

This is what happens to humanity when people are given cellphones.