Entertainment.... or .... perhaps
by now.... even the 'seeking of it'... seems to have occupied the
quality time of our life so much that.....
Maybe.... it is worth..... maybe it
is time, that we should be taking a look .... at how we have come
to view it.... and as to how much this 'view' has affected our
very well-being!
....
A working parent.... seems to be
satisfied when that parent provides wholesome entertainment to one's
'own' child/baby...... of having done (fulfilled) one's duty......
After all, it takes a lots of effort to entertain someone... it is
about providing 'quality time'!!! Even the meaningless noises that
is used to communicate with the baby seems to convey only some sort
of cajolery! Utterly needless, but eventually ends up sending across
a message that a parent is 'meant' to entertain a kid at all times!
...
A guest to our home 'expects' to be
well-entertained.... and this expectation is directly proportional
to the relativity with the host!... Any lack of it or a deficiency
will be deemed as 'neglect of relationship itself!'
...
A visiting dignitary is 'provided' with
wholesome entertainment, only to keep his time spent with us fully
occupied....
....
Somewhere the kings used to spend more
and more of their time in entertaining themselves, and the noblemen
around took it as a cue, to follow suit... Generations of all those
who could afford it, took it as a mark of nobility to keep themselves
entertained all ways....... & all the ways!
....
This entertainment 'value'... has
perhaps permeated deep inside us!
(The idiot-box, PCs, i-Pods, ear-plugs,
.... the bulk of 'gadgets' find the 'entertainment' quotient to be
the real criteria to find good marketability, stable market-share...
the manufacturers of it, become the richest corporate in least time!)
....
Even a gangrape is good enough to
entertain us...
Even the news about a gangrape is good
enough (when we lack the courage to do “something about it.....”
.... that 'something-about-it' can be interpreted to suit our
liking.... that is exactly 'the entertainment' about it! )
Sadism.... (if it is not
entertainment, if it is not about maintaining a Uniqueness in seeking
of entertainment... then what else is it?)....
....
Sensational news.... has better appeal
.... entertainment quotient in it?
...
Brilliant youngsters, well accomplished
at academics.... find it too difficult to spend a couple of days at
a remote village, where there is 'nothing-to-do'.... (they find it
'full-of-action' holidaying at some posh resorts, sea-beach hotel...
etc)... There are some elders at those desolate villages, who are
too old , too feeble to take up any productive work... they do not
know boredom... yet when we look at them... we blink first...
they seem to show infinite patience to just sit comfortably for
eternity!
....
Whenever our mind asks.... “What is
there in it for me?”.... please see, if it is a seeking of some
kind of entertainment.... in a subtle way even.... there is
something that is taking us away from the main-stream of the 'natural
way of our being'... It is just a question of time, when
something called boredom would take over, when we are supersaturated
with entertainment, and then psychosomatic disorders will be the
order-of-the-day!
Entertainingly yours,
psn (9th January, 2013)
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