Do I really need it? I don’t know. (Or rather I know but I am not ready to admit it!!!)
Recently I was watching a movie named Confessions of shopoholic. The movie is a about a girl who is addict to buying anything that she could see in the stores. The movie, as the name suggests, is about her addiction buying unnecessary things. A friend of our heroine sends her to some clinic where experts try to help addict people. The counsellor asks a question to all people “Do you really need it?” and then asks everyone to repeat the question – Do I really need it? Do I really need it? Do I really need it? And it goes on and on.. I don’t know what happens next in the movie as I left it there and moved on to another channel.
After few days this question suddenly came to mind, Do I really need this? And although I am not shopoholic, I was left contemplating about the question for lot of time, and hence here I am writing about this.
I think I am not a potato couch, but very often I have found myself browsing channels just for the sake of it. When I reach home from office, I don’t want to do anything, absolutely anything, so I choose to switch on the TV. And I end up flipping through channels at a rate one channel per ten seconds. Do I really need it? Don’t I know the answer of this question? I know, but I am not ready to admit it.
This flipping continues till I find something worth(?) watching. And it is even more intersting to know what is that worthy channel that I am selecting. Most of the times, it is the movie which I have seen already. If I start counting, I will definitely find that there are many movies which I have seen more than ten times and I know each and every dialog, each and every frame. Is this activity called as entertainment? I know its not, but I don’t have the courage to admit it. Recently, I saw a movie named Condenmed on Star Movies. By the time the movie finished, I was cursing myself, why the hell I am watching this. And this is not the first time it happened to me, I have watched most insane movies like Anjaam, Singh is King. And this not only happens with movies, it continues with news also. I always think that I should be aware of whats happening around me. So what do I watch at news? Take yesterdays example, I was watching a debate over Sania Mirza – Shoiab Malik marriage. So called socialists were analyzing the issue(?) with so much of sincerity, there was also a psychologist who was analyzing behaviour of Shoaib Malik in press conference. And everyone will be amazed to know his deductions. They were able to deduct that Shoaib Malik was hiding something, this dedcution was based on the evidence – which was – Shoaib scratching his head, he being not ready to look into the camera….. and the argument goes on. Do I really need to watch this? I was able to answer the question this time, I immediately swiched off the TV.
My tryst with this question continues to many things that I do in my day. Take the example of browsing, which I know most of us are very fond of. What do I browse, first I go on Orkut, check all the scraps. Oops while writing this, I am stunned to type in the word SCRAP. Doesn’t it mean an old, discarded, or rejected item or substance? (courtsey : Dictionary.com) I think, the term is very correctly coined by Google engineers. Next I check my friend list on Orkut and on FaceBook. Then I find out how many on Orkut friend list are not on FaceBook friend list and vice-versa. Then I start sending requests to all of them!!! Waw, what a important task, isn’t it? Do I really need it? I think,no, I don’t need it. I can very well connect to all my loved once with one of these J. But I don’t know where to stop. I think, I am using computer, but it’s the other way round, the computer is using me.
Let me just traverse back in time and find out what I was doing without these exciting(?) gadgets – TV and computer. It was my eleventh standard. We had bought new house and shifted to new place. The place was then on outskitrts of city, our society was in secluded area. So there was no cable provider!!! (And Tata Sky wasn’t even born!!) I think, this is the year when I watched least amount of TV. Generally, people prepare for IITs and similar stuff, but I wasn’t doing anything of that sort. So I had ample time. I remember, I used to see Sun rising every day in the morning, this continued for the complete year, I even saw movement in the place where Sun rises on the horizon. It moved from one conrner of the east to other during the year. We had lots of rose plants in our balcony, red, yellow, white, pink, and the one which had two colours, pink and white. I used to water them all. It was the most a pleasant experience to see plants bud. Radio Mirchi was newly introduced in the Pune city. Saathiya was a chartbuster then,I remember myself waiting for Saathiya title track to be aired on the top 20 list. If I want to sum up everything in one sentence, it was the best time. Then slowly the place became crowded, cable providers came. Now I had TV remote, computer to play with. And by the time I reached second year of my engineering, all the rose plants died because I had no time to look at them. Currently, I don’t have any plant in my house.
Anyway, I know I have diverted the topic from where it started. So coming back again.
This list of places where I can ask the question “Do I need it?” can grow forever, I believe we all will have some or the other addiction like this. And of course no-one will admit it. And hence I’ve started loving this question – “Do I really need it?” More often I ask it to myself, more time I will get to the things that I love doing most.
Recently I was watching a movie named Confessions of shopoholic. The movie is a about a girl who is addict to buying anything that she could see in the stores. The movie, as the name suggests, is about her addiction buying unnecessary things. A friend of our heroine sends her to some clinic where experts try to help addict people. The counsellor asks a question to all people “Do you really need it?” and then asks everyone to repeat the question – Do I really need it? Do I really need it? Do I really need it? And it goes on and on.. I don’t know what happens next in the movie as I left it there and moved on to another channel.
After few days this question suddenly came to mind, Do I really need this? And although I am not shopoholic, I was left contemplating about the question for lot of time, and hence here I am writing about this.
I think I am not a potato couch, but very often I have found myself browsing channels just for the sake of it. When I reach home from office, I don’t want to do anything, absolutely anything, so I choose to switch on the TV. And I end up flipping through channels at a rate one channel per ten seconds. Do I really need it? Don’t I know the answer of this question? I know, but I am not ready to admit it.
This flipping continues till I find something worth(?) watching. And it is even more intersting to know what is that worthy channel that I am selecting. Most of the times, it is the movie which I have seen already. If I start counting, I will definitely find that there are many movies which I have seen more than ten times and I know each and every dialog, each and every frame. Is this activity called as entertainment? I know its not, but I don’t have the courage to admit it. Recently, I saw a movie named Condenmed on Star Movies. By the time the movie finished, I was cursing myself, why the hell I am watching this. And this is not the first time it happened to me, I have watched most insane movies like Anjaam, Singh is King. And this not only happens with movies, it continues with news also. I always think that I should be aware of whats happening around me. So what do I watch at news? Take yesterdays example, I was watching a debate over Sania Mirza – Shoiab Malik marriage. So called socialists were analyzing the issue(?) with so much of sincerity, there was also a psychologist who was analyzing behaviour of Shoaib Malik in press conference. And everyone will be amazed to know his deductions. They were able to deduct that Shoaib Malik was hiding something, this dedcution was based on the evidence – which was – Shoaib scratching his head, he being not ready to look into the camera….. and the argument goes on. Do I really need to watch this? I was able to answer the question this time, I immediately swiched off the TV.
My tryst with this question continues to many things that I do in my day. Take the example of browsing, which I know most of us are very fond of. What do I browse, first I go on Orkut, check all the scraps. Oops while writing this, I am stunned to type in the word SCRAP. Doesn’t it mean an old, discarded, or rejected item or substance? (courtsey : Dictionary.com) I think, the term is very correctly coined by Google engineers. Next I check my friend list on Orkut and on FaceBook. Then I find out how many on Orkut friend list are not on FaceBook friend list and vice-versa. Then I start sending requests to all of them!!! Waw, what a important task, isn’t it? Do I really need it? I think,no, I don’t need it. I can very well connect to all my loved once with one of these J. But I don’t know where to stop. I think, I am using computer, but it’s the other way round, the computer is using me.
Let me just traverse back in time and find out what I was doing without these exciting(?) gadgets – TV and computer. It was my eleventh standard. We had bought new house and shifted to new place. The place was then on outskitrts of city, our society was in secluded area. So there was no cable provider!!! (And Tata Sky wasn’t even born!!) I think, this is the year when I watched least amount of TV. Generally, people prepare for IITs and similar stuff, but I wasn’t doing anything of that sort. So I had ample time. I remember, I used to see Sun rising every day in the morning, this continued for the complete year, I even saw movement in the place where Sun rises on the horizon. It moved from one conrner of the east to other during the year. We had lots of rose plants in our balcony, red, yellow, white, pink, and the one which had two colours, pink and white. I used to water them all. It was the most a pleasant experience to see plants bud. Radio Mirchi was newly introduced in the Pune city. Saathiya was a chartbuster then,I remember myself waiting for Saathiya title track to be aired on the top 20 list. If I want to sum up everything in one sentence, it was the best time. Then slowly the place became crowded, cable providers came. Now I had TV remote, computer to play with. And by the time I reached second year of my engineering, all the rose plants died because I had no time to look at them. Currently, I don’t have any plant in my house.
Anyway, I know I have diverted the topic from where it started. So coming back again.
This list of places where I can ask the question “Do I need it?” can grow forever, I believe we all will have some or the other addiction like this. And of course no-one will admit it. And hence I’ve started loving this question – “Do I really need it?” More often I ask it to myself, more time I will get to the things that I love doing most.
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