What Do You Give Up When.......

What do you give up when you rent a video? There is one key factor that is missing. It is a simple thing, mostly, but its effect is monumental. Over the years, as technology becomes and makes us  more anti-social, that effect starts to turn up in strange and odd behavioral patterns. I must admit that even I have become more mindful of my surroundings when I walk, when  I am on a photo-shoot or just going to the doctor's office.

Yesterday, while doing my health walk, I also do the brain clean when I try to replace all the garbage that has built up and filter out the negatives. Today, I have to do that more often than ever before because there is so much more negatives today than in the past. Having a plan and a routine to do that is different for people. Some like to run. Some like to walk. Some like to bike. Some do photography and some just walk and think. I try to combine the photography with the walk at times while at other times, I like to do the photography and think and walk. Multi-tasking your health, I like to think.

While doing that yesterday, it came to me that I had not been to a movie in quiet some time. It's easier to rent  a video than ever before. Go to the pharmacy or grocery store, rent a movie and then watch it when you can block out the time to watch. What's wrong with that? Plenty as I discovered later on after really thinking about going to a movie verses renting one. It also came to me that the anti-social behavior that people have today is partly because they are in their own little  i-world and don't have the people skills that I grew up with.

That's right, Mr. Boxer, this labs need more new social skills.

What it really boils down to is that people don't care about anyone but themselves. It's a self-centered world we live in today. Oh, I know, there are those that will argue that point, but they would argue with a rattlesnake, too. It's about people watching a movie and hearing others laugh at a funny scene or a funny line by an actor. And even though you didn't laugh, at least you knew that several dozen people around you found, what ever it was that caused the laugh, funny to others. You don't get that when you rent a video. You don't have the mixture of attitudes of people around you. It helps you to absorb that others laughed--why didn't I? What was so funny? I didn't find that to be funny but gees, the whole theater roared, you conclude. Don't you see....it just might be you that has no sense of humor.