Peace & Blessings People:
So, I'm watching tv on a sunday evening, flipping from one channel to the next... And you know as I strolled up and down the paddle on the remote, I paused at one station viewing for a mere 10-15 minutes. This station was broadcasting a show of some high level prison in California I think it was and it basically covered a documentary of inmates and how they conformed to joinging gangs once entering the prison for protection and survival and the need to belong and fit in with a more smoother transition. Then during the commerical break I switched to TLC where they have series of obese patients in some rehabilitation center for the morbid obese. It just amazed me how one flip of a channel can chaneg your mood entirely within seconds. Here were these folks that were fighting for their life, for various regions of even resulting to obesity rather it was genetic, depression or obsessions with food. Young and old individuals filled the wards of this instituion. All I could think was these folks are fighting for thier rights to just catch a mere breath or two to simply survive and every moment of their life is detrimental because it determines if they journey closer to life or clinch to death. After about 10-15 mintues I realized, I had strayed away from the inmate documentary and well, due to the fact my mind was begninning to sway towards the thought of my brother and a close freind incarcerated, I wasn't really comforted watching the horror stories of prision.
But it wasn't until I flipped the channel again to stroll to a show called "30 Days". Well this particualr episode was about a guy who was placed in the shoes of a quadrapalegic. He learned the ups and downs, the many life adjustments and emotional angish frustration that those in that situation expereince. This was actually something worth watching. And well it got me to thinking, we are so blessed because we could be limited in ways that we take for granted. And well the after watching this, there was too, a young guy that was actually paralyzed from waist down, but he triumphed and expressed to viewers and a dear friend, that everyday simpy wan't pie, but it could have been worst and well he had a second chance, and more importantly, he had LIFE, that was and is definatly worth living.
I began to reflect on watching the US Open earlier watching Tiger and some other pro golfers. OK, I am big fan of golf and play as well, so this was realxing to me and reminded me, that hey you can make a career simply doing something you love and something that you are a scholar at. Watching golf was simply a relaxing recreation for me and also a tutorial, because I made mental notes of some do's and don'ts on the golf course. But later on.... I swtiched the channel.
Well there's a then, yeah a then, I flipped to yet another channel, and I stopped at the Fabulous Life of Kimora Lee Simmons. OK, don't get me wrong, I appluad her for her handling her biz and being successful and all the while doing what she loves. But here you got folks on the othe side hungry, homeless and trying to figure how to make ends meet for the next day, then you got folksk fighting for their lives in hospitals, rehabs and various institutions and then you got folks encountered real life situations and then, yeah THEN, you got Kimora tripping, complaining and throwing fits because ten dresses that are picked for her, she doesn't like. She has multiple stylist and assistants yet she is never satisfied. I'm thinking chick, there is more to life than a dress, a dress that gotta be perfect for you to floss for a mere 4 to 5 minutes. It was at this time I realized and had an epiphany. There comes a time in a tv viewers life when you must be able to separate the difference from inpsiration and entertainment when mesmerized by the set. It was at that time I thouhgt about the title of this blog. Gluttony of consumption of the box, idiot box as Damon Wayans called it in the movie Bamboozeled. TV is what you make of it and sometimes there comes a time when you simply must shut it off, because it was at the time after I watched a buit of Kimora, that I reached my conclusion that it's time to be productive. I felt like, hey I wasn't ingesting anything that would enhance or broaden my awareness or intellect.
So dear readers, I challenge you to chastize yourself when it comes to the tv..It can be cool at times, but you simply need to know when to shut the darn thing off.
Until my next post peace, infinite blessings and prosperity..
1LuV
Monique D.
So, I'm watching tv on a sunday evening, flipping from one channel to the next... And you know as I strolled up and down the paddle on the remote, I paused at one station viewing for a mere 10-15 minutes. This station was broadcasting a show of some high level prison in California I think it was and it basically covered a documentary of inmates and how they conformed to joinging gangs once entering the prison for protection and survival and the need to belong and fit in with a more smoother transition. Then during the commerical break I switched to TLC where they have series of obese patients in some rehabilitation center for the morbid obese. It just amazed me how one flip of a channel can chaneg your mood entirely within seconds. Here were these folks that were fighting for their life, for various regions of even resulting to obesity rather it was genetic, depression or obsessions with food. Young and old individuals filled the wards of this instituion. All I could think was these folks are fighting for thier rights to just catch a mere breath or two to simply survive and every moment of their life is detrimental because it determines if they journey closer to life or clinch to death. After about 10-15 mintues I realized, I had strayed away from the inmate documentary and well, due to the fact my mind was begninning to sway towards the thought of my brother and a close freind incarcerated, I wasn't really comforted watching the horror stories of prision.
But it wasn't until I flipped the channel again to stroll to a show called "30 Days". Well this particualr episode was about a guy who was placed in the shoes of a quadrapalegic. He learned the ups and downs, the many life adjustments and emotional angish frustration that those in that situation expereince. This was actually something worth watching. And well it got me to thinking, we are so blessed because we could be limited in ways that we take for granted. And well the after watching this, there was too, a young guy that was actually paralyzed from waist down, but he triumphed and expressed to viewers and a dear friend, that everyday simpy wan't pie, but it could have been worst and well he had a second chance, and more importantly, he had LIFE, that was and is definatly worth living.
I began to reflect on watching the US Open earlier watching Tiger and some other pro golfers. OK, I am big fan of golf and play as well, so this was realxing to me and reminded me, that hey you can make a career simply doing something you love and something that you are a scholar at. Watching golf was simply a relaxing recreation for me and also a tutorial, because I made mental notes of some do's and don'ts on the golf course. But later on.... I swtiched the channel.
Well there's a then, yeah a then, I flipped to yet another channel, and I stopped at the Fabulous Life of Kimora Lee Simmons. OK, don't get me wrong, I appluad her for her handling her biz and being successful and all the while doing what she loves. But here you got folks on the othe side hungry, homeless and trying to figure how to make ends meet for the next day, then you got folksk fighting for their lives in hospitals, rehabs and various institutions and then you got folks encountered real life situations and then, yeah THEN, you got Kimora tripping, complaining and throwing fits because ten dresses that are picked for her, she doesn't like. She has multiple stylist and assistants yet she is never satisfied. I'm thinking chick, there is more to life than a dress, a dress that gotta be perfect for you to floss for a mere 4 to 5 minutes. It was at this time I realized and had an epiphany. There comes a time in a tv viewers life when you must be able to separate the difference from inpsiration and entertainment when mesmerized by the set. It was at that time I thouhgt about the title of this blog. Gluttony of consumption of the box, idiot box as Damon Wayans called it in the movie Bamboozeled. TV is what you make of it and sometimes there comes a time when you simply must shut it off, because it was at the time after I watched a buit of Kimora, that I reached my conclusion that it's time to be productive. I felt like, hey I wasn't ingesting anything that would enhance or broaden my awareness or intellect.
So dear readers, I challenge you to chastize yourself when it comes to the tv..It can be cool at times, but you simply need to know when to shut the darn thing off.
Until my next post peace, infinite blessings and prosperity..
1LuV
Monique D.
1 comment:
tiger put it down today
Nice spot u have here, hope u don’t mind the drive by, do chk me out one day
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