Entertainment

This seems to be an age of entertainment and boredom. We are so easily bored that we need our electronic devices to entertain us. This is the significant problem though, we now expect to be entertained by other things or other people. It has now become more and more the passive receiving of entertainment rather then entertaining ourselves. This includes TV obviously, and video games, ipods, phones, Nintendo's. We are expecting to be entertained by an outside influence.

Entertaining yourself using tools like books, games and puzzles, craft, sewing, cooking, singing, playing music or anything else active is more beneficial then computer games and visual passtimes.  Books, puzzles, board games and the rest, are less passive as they take brain power and, except with books, socialness to do successfully.

If we always go for the passive, receiving forms of entertainment, we will forget how to amuse ourselves with anything else. This is most clearly seen in children who are allowed to watch TV or play screen games too much then, when told they are not allowed to anymore, complain how bored they are. Teenagers in a group will text each other and absent people, will play mobile phone games and listen to their music or watch youtube rather then face the awkwardness of speaking to the people pysically there. When in a group of say eight people and four of them are fiddling with their phones, it is hard for the other four to maintain a conversation even just between themselves.

Soon we will need to teach our children how to not continually rely on electronic devices and to find other ways to entertain themselves, like maybe talking or playing.