If I were a 90s kid, I'd probably love a world with AI, ChatGPT, and virtual reality. But I'm a 2020s kid, and I don't want any of it.

I want more right now. I want my freedom to use Google, to do my homework on paper, to spend my Saturday afternoon reading a book, not watching videos on a headset or talking to an AI assistant. I don't want to be so disconnected to be so connected. I don't want to be isolated in my own world. I want to be part of the world I actually live in. I don't want to be so alienated to be so entertained. I don't want to be so passive to be so engaged. I want to be a human being, not a machine.<br><br>I want to be able to have a meaningful conversation with a real person, not a virtual one. I want to be able to have a debate, not a chat. I want to be able to have a discussion, not a dialogue. I want to be able to have a connection, not a conversation. I want to be able to have a relationship, not a romance. I want to be able to have a friend, not a follower. I want to be able to have a family, not a fanbase. I want to be able to have a community, not a crowd. I want to be able to have a neighborhood, not a network. I want to be able to have a home, not a house. I want to be able to have a life, not a lifestyle.<br><br>I want to be able to have a job, not a career. I want to be able to have a passion, not a profession. I want to be able to have a craft, not a skill. I want to be able to have a trade, not a talent. I want to be able to have a hobby, not a habit. I want to be able to have a pastime, not a passion project. I want to be able to have a pleasure, not a purpose. I want to be able to have a joy, not a job. I want to be able to have a delight, not a duty. I want to be able to have a thrill, not a chore. I want to be able to have a satisfaction, not a success.<br><br>I want to be able to have a future, not a fate. I want to be able to have a hope, not a horizon. I want to be able to have a dream, not a destiny. I want to be able to have a desire, not a drive. I want to be able to have a want, not a will. I want to be able to have a need, not a necessity. I want to be able to have a wish, not a want. I want to be able to have a prayer, not a plan. I want to be able to have a faith, not a fate.<br><br>I want to have the freedom to make my own choices. I don't want my choices to be made for me. I want to have the power to change my own life. I don't want my life to be changed for me. I want to have the ability to take risks. I don't want my risks to be taken away from me. I want to have the courage to speak up. I don't want my voice to be silenced.<br><br>I don't want my worth to be measured by my productivity. I don't want my success to be measured by my accomplishments. I don't want my happiness to be measured by my possessions. I don't want my fulfillment to be measured by my achievements. I don't want my identity to be measured by my job. I don't want my self-worth to be measured by my social media followers. I don't want my popularity to be measured by my likes. I don't want my influence to be measured by my clout. I don't want my status to be measured by my wealth.<br><br>I don't want my life to be controlled by a machine. I don't want my thoughts to be controlled by a computer. I don't want my feelings to be controlled by a program. I don't want my actions to be controlled by an algorithm. I don't want my decisions to be controlled by a robot. I don't want my relationships to be controlled by a social network. I don't want my interactions to be controlled by a messaging app. I don't want my communication to be controlled by a telephone. I don't want my expression to be controlled by a camera. I don't want my creativity to be controlled by a software. I don't want my imagination to be controlled by a virtual reality headset.<br><br>I don't want my life to be a simulation. I don't want my reality to be virtual. I don't want my world to be augmented. I don't want my existence to be artificial. I don't want my humanity to be synthetic. I don't want my individuality to be manufactured. I don't want my autonomy to be automated. I don't want my freedom to be restricted. I don't want my choices to be limited. I don't want my possibilities to be predetermined. I don't want my potential to be programmed. I don't want my future to be predicted. I don't want my destiny to be decided.<br><br>I want to be a human being, not a human doing. I want to be a person, not a persona. I want to be an individual, not an identity. I want to be a self, not a selfie. I want to be a soul, not a simulation. I want to be a spirit, not a specter. I want to be a heart, not a hologram. I want to be a mind, not a machine. I want to be a brain, not a bot. I want to be a body, not a battery. I want to be a flesh, not a fiction. I want to be a blood, not a binary code. I want to be a life, not a lifestyle. I want to be a world, not a website.