Big is good, Small is better

I wonder how many of us appreciate Orwell for his Animal Farm especially the subversion of "Four legs good, Two legs Bad" to "Four legs good, two legs better". I read this classic as an exam text in middle school. It wasn't one of my favorites.Not because of the maxims and it's reference to communism, Karl Marx, Lenin and the likes of this bunch of jokers but because of the pigs in the story. They disgusted me and the very thought of them ruling the rest of the animals and being considered the smartest of animals put me off. *Shrug* yeah it did.

But now, as I look around me, and experience life each day and see life change over the years (which I believe is what every normal person does, actually, intentionally or not), I seem to find bits and pieces in that story to be very applicable. But it's not all bad. While the world has become a mere village and possibly an even smaller unit than that in the future, and micro technology has become nano technology, so has our children's perception of toys changed.

I remember when I was a kid, it used to be BIG was better. So a birthday present that was huge MUST be awesome and a small inconspicuous one a poor match. A trip to the toy shop would have my eyes looking for big stuff which could do all sorts of tricks as compared to a small one. Showing off a big yellow BIG bird was better than a small kermit. And let's not even go to play sets. Who wouldn't want a whole standing mini kitchen in the playroom? *Sigh with nostalgia* But my last shopping trip to Toys 'R' Us with my kids proved to me that Big was good but Small was BETTER.

Yup. You sure heard me right. So here's the craze with small things. My son has a collection of little cars. I have no idea what he needs that many little cars for, but the fact is he never tires of them and as long as I see him playing with the toys he's bought, I don't complain. But his latest addition to this collection is the nano-bug. Yup. The nano tech has reached the kids. And it's amazing even if I, the non-techy non-nano savvy person, say so. It's a really intelligent bug and rather fascinating. I think the green inchworm bug is his favorite. Did I forget to tell you that he's also into miniature remote controls?

 
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I know he's it'll probably send him to the moon and keep him there if he gets the Hexbug Original. I'm hoping that I'll be the lucky winner of Innovation First International's giveaways of hexbug orginals. I've never been a bigger fan of bugs till now! And here's to reinforcing the maxim (at least to me) "good things come in small packages".

*chanting* Hexbug come to me....hexbug come to me... HEXBUG, come to me, NOW!