A little bit of this and that is ok. Like watching TV or a movie, once in a while, in a blue moon, is ok. But do it regularly, I feel like my energy and my life is being sucked out of my body. How?
While you're watching that lifeless box, life and TIME goes on around you.. tasks to be completed/knowledge to be gained/ amal to be done/the book to be read/ friends to be contacted - all just sitting there, waiting to get done, while we just sit or lie there like a zombie, just WATCHING that TV set. The seconds, minutes and hours ticking away.. and you're sitting there.. doing NOTHING.. just WATCHING this people on TV, who actually have got nothing to do with you. (Suddenly I'm reminded of some people who watches 'DIA' - the Indonesian series. They sit there religiously every week, for an hour or so, getting angry and stressed over the story. Then, when they meet, they talk about this characters on the show like as if, it's some real problems that they have. Cute.. sad.. Kalau dah stress gitu.. how you call it 'entertainment' eh?
You may say that some movies teaches us about life, kaza wa kaza. Well there is only very few that does that. Those that makes you think about your own life and enable you to deal with your own situation better. But those kind of movies or shows are far too few. As for the masses, how do they tell which movies teaches them the right stuff? Or which ones are just exagerated stuff. Most of these people sit there watch them believing every part of it. And expecting the same kind of thing to happen to them. Sometimes the expectations are tooooo high, thanks to these movies. In real life.. it doesn't happen that way. Some good examples are romance movies.
The lead actor/hero is very good looking AND sooo romantic, AND sooo nice and faithful, AND treats the lady soooooo nicely. He buys her flowers and open doors and will put up with all her sulkings.. waaaaaaaaaaah... fat hope. If you watch these kind of movies to much, you get absorbed into them and you can't help but hope and wish for this kind of guy to come around - but of course they almost never will because they don't exist! You see, nobody is sooo perfect. The ladies then expects of their partner the same level of care and romance and kaza wa kaza.. dream on. Then problems in relationship arises because of this high expectations.
A psychology professor, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, from Caremont Graduate University, California wrote this (Sunday Times, Singapore 2nd January 2005):
"Watching too much TV induces passivity, both at the level of neural functioning and of behaviour and that it interferes with learning and reduces political and civic participation. It also encourages aggressive behaviour in children and produces negative moods, such as sadness and loneliness. Nor is there any evidence of benefits to counterbalance these negative effects.....Those who spend hours watching it each evening, with less and less control over their attention and deriving progressively less enjoyment from what they watch, risk becoming as besotted as an alcoholic who feels alive only when he blots out reality." Nauzubillah!
So, not only it wastes your time, it makes you have unrealistic expectations in life, almost blocking out reality, AND makes us forget about things that should matter most to us, like - have we done enough good to help us kat AKHIRAT nanti??
I literally feel restless and weak, when I watch TV, movies, VCDs too regularly. I find myself thinking about the movies, about the show about the people in the show, like apasal dalam movie tu.. heroine dia camni, camtu. Or that concert is very good, will I ever have the chance to talk to the lead singer about his work (by the way I watched Spider LIVE at Planet on VCD- it's good! they are very good)... then suddenly I'll wake up, 'Why am I so concerned and thinking about all these things ni?? When I should be thinking that I haven't been teaching my children ngaji!' Sigh.. I'm easily distracted. Astaghfirullah.
Itulah dia... I must limit myself, and be choosy about what I AND THE CHILDREN watch on TV.
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