Entertainment - without it will certainly be the end of us...

         Doing work is a necessity in life. Without work, our lives will be dull and we might not obtain enough food to sustain our life. However, we cannot work all day long without stopping as we are not soulless machines that do not have emotions and feelings. We may sometimes feel tired and want to have some rest. At this moment, having some entertainments may be useful to make us relax and relieve our tiredness at the instant. This is why we must have certain amounts of entertainments in our life.

          Maybe you don’t realize that actually many things we have around us are actually part of our devices that gives us entertainment, for example televisions, video games, computers, radios, magazines, books, music and even hobbies. Entertainment refers to anything that would entertain you, or give you pleasure in order to let time pass without feeling bored for that particular time. It helps you to temporarily escape from the normal routine that you are having, giving you a break while showering you bits of joy to continue life in your fullest. It also offers you a perfect sanctuary from the hustle and bustle of city life, enough for you to dwell in your own world without worries.

          Entertainments play a crucial role in our lives. It balances all the work that we have done in our daily life. Imagine a life without entertainment, where we have to work all day and all night without having the chance to do things that we like. Our lives will be totally boring as all of us shall live with work, as the proverb goes “all work and no play makes jack a dull boy”. We require entertainment to divert our attention to let us concentrate on things that we like until a certain level of alertness is achieved. It even eliminates fatigue and tiredness from us. This regains our consciousness and helps us stay alert all the time to enable us to perform better and excel in work. Now you have figured it out why holidays are created for everyone.

          Entertainment is also responsible for keeping you stay good and healthy. Here is a simple question: Do you prefer to do things that you like or do things that you dislike? Undoubted, all of us will prefer to do things that we like over the things that we hate, and your entertainment is often something that you like, while your work, vice versa. Referring to this, we are often in a happy state when we are having our entertainments as it grants you instant happiness and satisfaction that could not be given by work itself. Likewise, if we are happy, then we are in a good mood, and our mood itself, determines a big portion of our health condition. If our mood is good, then our body is healthy at that time. Hence, having some entertainment can make you feel good and keep you healthy always.

          Furthermore, entertainment can reduce stress and tension that is resulted by work. It doesn’t matter what you do to entertain yourself. It might only be lazing at the sofa to watch a drama, having a good conversation with your loved ones, gardening in your backyard, or playing basketball with your best friends. It can temporarily stop you from having any other extra thoughts regarding your stressful life, your worries and your hardships. It allows your mind to calm down and refresh, giving you peace and letting your hair down. This enables you to have a bigger and wider space to think rationally to solve the problems that you faced.

          Basically, entertainment is one of your raw sources of happiness that makes you feel that you are in cloud nine, while alleviating all the conflicts and problems you faced in the reality. Having a sufficient amount of entertainment can give you the motivation power to be better in life. Contradictory, having too much entertainment is also as dangerous as not having it as it causes people to be lazy in work, only hopping for the pleasures that they gain from their entertainments. Hence, we must have good time management to let us balance between work and entertainment. Only by this, we can live our lives to its fullest extend.