Entertainment!?
A colleague of mine once told me a story. A story about a gloomy little guy traveling in the bus for quite some time. Kind of sad looking, lost in his thoughts. At one of the bus stops, a dog was lurking around his window. The guy simply took some water and threw it up on the dog. The dog just ran away. It brought a smile upon his face. But apparently, there was no reason for the person to do such an action. But he did!!
Every day, while travelling in between home and work a listen to radio. Radio One to be precise. And every hour they air this program called Ghanta Singh. Where the guy calls up some people who are trying to sell something, and just troubles them. The program is aired, because the listeners listen to it. 9 out of 10 times, it brings a smile on the listeners face.
I feel, our biggest form of entertainment, is troubling others. We, the present generation, enjoy in others plight. We enjoy troubling people and then laughing at them.
Is this what we are all reduced to?? The antidote to our gloom is pain on others face?? We are best at making fun of others and we enjoy it??
I think somewhere back I mentioned, people who make fun of themselves and actually laugh about it are the great ones!!
What an insightful post kid…
But isn’t it true that sometimes we laugh at people who fall in front of us, and then try really hard to suppress those loud roars?
If we can laugh at ourselves, i think then in some strange ways its ok to look at life and laugh off at those silly moments, but thats only when we are ready to take the jokes on ourselves too!
@LC…yeah we do …but why ?? is it because we were glad we were not having that fall..?? Having fun should be in the spirit, the spirit in which the person who is being laughed at should also enjoy. Not derogatory. It should not happen that person has to go back and swear to himself that nothing of that sort should ever to him again.
I believe these small things end up pushing someone, anyone over the edge.
Its a matter of respecting the sensitivity of the person. I agree with you there. But again, let me say this to you. I have been a victim of a raging laughter from strangers, because my heel broke. Did I feel bad, hell no. I was laughing like a nut case myself.
But again, had it been at the cost of hurting my sensibilities, this could have been a different case.
Its about where we draw the line. As long as the common opinion is inclusive and not derogatory, it should be fine.
Life is anyway too serious to let go of little moments of smiles from random strangers, shared in a weird moment of insanity, so there is a lighter perspective to it too.
Life…is actually too short to let go little moments of laughter…
But frankly, I don’t understand how some people find it amusing that someone else is stuck in a hole. May be the process by which he got stuck in the hole can be funny, but getting stuck itself cannot be funny.
May be I am being oversensitive in this issue! But, I am beginning to hate amusement at the expense of others time and mental peace.
I am sure, you wouldn’t have enjoyed as much if you would have found that someone actually had weakened your heal so that it breaks.
Sure I agree with you when you say that. I wouldn’t be mean.
I think one must know where to draw the line!
Ppl tend to derive pleasure from many things some we can comprehend and some is beyond my IQ.. As far as this Ghanta Singh show is concerned. I am yet to find a sane person who likes it.. Probably the producer is insane or the so called “Ghanta Singh
” is king of Radio one.. Whatever is the case … the show runs because ppl like us who don’t like it never voice it to the right authority…
The word be very precise. But I believe both the example highlighted in the post are actually incidents of meanness, rather than having a lighter moment.
And precisely what I believe, we society as a whole are moving towards a state where we are inconsiderate about the others. We tend to exploit whatever is available to us, without actually giving it due thought.
As you said, one must know where to draw the line, but I believe that the factors which decide the basis on where to draw the line are of utmost importance.
We should not become so selfish in our quest of our ambitions that we forget we are part of a society and that our actions have implications not only on us but people around us.