No one thinks in terms of learning while watching media for entertainment. Whether it be videos, television shows or movies; each story has a storyline of characters, summaries, and create interesting topics that real life would not dare to discuss even with those closest to a person. But a person will watch and ponder in silence of media anyways.
But have you ever really sit and thought about what you have learned or could be taught from the media you entertain yourself with?
A Person I Used to Know hated television shows. Hated series. Hated movies. Hated anything that allowed time to pass by while sitting still to watch something.
It was a waste of time for this person. But the earliest days of her television or movies was not a pleasantly inviting or an embracing experience. For the adults of the home forced what would be watched. Forced what was considered entertainment
and what was smut, not child friendly or completely just whores and sluts shows.
Yes, this person was me and that was what I endured. But in my time, homes were blessed if had only one television. Not the culture we have today where media can be connected too and enjoyed independently in every room of one's own home if they choose.
Thanks to pawn shops, consignment shops, thrift stores and even layaway policies in retail stores; even a financially strapped person on a budget can have as many electronic devices they want in their home.
Getting introduced to the media world through television shows like Star Trek and Doctor Who was not shows that a child or a teenager would have choose to watch back in my day; even if we had control of the television channels. There were no remotes to the TVs we owned; so if you didn't get up to change the channel; you watched whatever channel it was.The adults
back in my day controlled the television and not the kids. Today, kids do their thing and adults their own on their own devices.
Funny how electronics and media entertainment has multiplied. I remember when Hee Haw was considered the most raw and lewd show of characters and sexist entertainment on television. According to my conservatives grandmothers and mother; it was and religiously wrong too. I know better now.
In constructing my own form of media entertainment through the years and watching all that I did miss out on in my own generation that I missed when it was current; I have come to learn that media can be a great teacher too.
For almost all shows, movies, and videos have some kind of moral compass to follow or element of surprise to help a person endure their hard or disappointing life circumstances. To be able to embrace the positive and learn from the negative of these entertaining story lines with believable heroic or demonic characters is thrilling in itself.
I find myself getting wrapped up in the most evil of cynical characters. Feeling empathy for them and depending on the story behind the media; even acknowledging their imperfect criminal ways in myself. I look up to these evil or darkness characters just because their story lines are the most real about human nature that only entertainment can depict.
The truth hurts Yes! But dodging it does nothing effective either. Lying about how you feel or avoiding the hard topics that stir emotions will not make those emotions go away.
The problem continues and is never solved. At least with evil or cynical characters, their techniques maybe questionable in solving problems but their characters are as real as it gets in the problems they endure in entertaining media.
If in reality we embraced those hard topics and discussed the emotionally facts of what we feel, endured, and saw hardcore in our self and others - what a better world we may have indeed where we could learn how to be truly equal and fulfilled
people.
For the darkness of some characters portrayed in movies or television shows makes you want to be that bad person or that bad ass that no one fears and every one respects. Those characters give you motivation to change your own light. To use your
own darkness in a new enlightening way of a creative mind. At least for me anyways.
I feel like I have been a sponge my whole life and still am. Soaking up all the exciting and new exposures of experiences to increase my own individual and personal quality of life and then using the negative experiences of my life to gain more light or just merely laugh at
than the darkness that occurred to me. For my reactions to every thing I experience are my own. My own terms to accept. My own control to do as I choose and how I wish to deal and roll with the punches so to speak.
For I can still love others when they hate me and they do not love me. That is my choice and it is satisfying knowing there's not a thing they can do about it. I can hate the very living air in the lungs that breathe every day and I choose to do them no harm even though I hate the actions they did to me that produced hate in me to begin with.
But I can hate them and go on in my life without them. There's nothing they can do it about it to change me and the views I have of them no more than they can change me without my consent.No one can judge me no matter what I do because it's my life, my actions, my words, my experiences.
The things that occur to us or what we endure are as a blanket that never leaves our side. We either choose to take that blanket of our own experiences to wrap our selves in to keep warm and moving forward in a cold, lonely world that we may have been given or we simply allow other to take our blankets of experiences and tell us what we should or can not do
with it. Unless you experience it; you have no say in it. Unless you own the blanket of experience of another, you can not take it from them and force them to do what you want too!
Humans are emotional creatures before we are anything else. I think for most people that being intellectually stimulated or emotionally or mentally massaged in life is more important than what most people will admit about one another.
For we see visually with our eyes but never touch the heart of another with our eyes closed. We hear their words and see their actions or visual beauty but we never really tap into the core of another emotional, mental and psychological soul.
We have relationships but many rarely never experience that deepness that gives us pleasures internally. Those feelings that last long after time has passed and the experience is gone. But yet the beautiful sharing exposure of complete opening of giving
and sharing discovery with another still lives in our memories and every time our eyes are closed to recall upon it as if we are living in that second again.
So we turn to media entertainment to get our fill. To feel that evil we claim we hate but yet we entices get stirred by. To lustfully or enviously wish, we could be that bad ass! To feel that good, wholesome perfection of life that only fictional characters of movies and shows can give us.
The movies and shows are blunt, honest, truthful, and even disturbing in the careful planning of story assembly that make characters appear real. We eat their realness up claiming our nourishment for our own mental appetites that only entertainment
provides to us when the truth of the matter is that inside; that's who we want to be. That's what we hope to feel. That's what we want to have in our life.
Entertainment media is all lust. All love. All hate. All evil. All good. All learning lessons wrapped up in each individual one. It is very hard for me to get turned onto to new characters if I can watch an old rerun a million times over just to savor the feel I get in my mouth and soul from my favorite entertainment outlets.
The Internet makes it so easy to keep an entertaining addiction alive with quotes and tag lines or soundtracks from those movies and shows that keep us feeling alive and real by the entertaining we get inside from the external sources.
I have shared many educational resources in my life with many people. My efforts of sharing has helped their lives to increase quality. To help someone shy become not so afraid to get out there and have fun. Even when clowning around to be the biggest mock of jokes I can be socially to help another feel less insecure - I am that person. It is about sharing. Simply sharing.
I am taking off focus of learning new skillful resources for a while of the facts in a dictionary. For I do feel I have shared enough for those who need it or want it in the prior posts of this blog to be effective skills that anyone can go back to read should they need too.
But from here on out, this blog will be catered to the fun, real, truth, and blunt of my own experiences and life. To share the evil with the darkness. To use short stories, poetry, musical lyrics, and any forms of entertainment I feel compelled to share with my own creative instincts to allow another to run with it.
Life is too short to try to save the whole world anyways. All we can do honestly is save our own damn self! Pardon the explicit vocabulary I use and if it offends; all I can do is tell you to read a dictionary.
For those words you were told that were bad, not lady like or religiously wrong have more meanings of fact than what those will tell you who are closest to you anyways. There are honestly no curse words. Only people who see curse words as bad because they feel uncomfortable saying them.
It all comes down to the facts of a dictionary and what you choose to do with your input of facts versus opinions anyways.
In learning all I have about Observe, Describe without Judging and Participating actively in every thing I do in my life with the Dialectal Behavior Therapy, medical conditions and gaining my new sense of healthier upon the unhealthiness I learned through my experiences and the opinions of others is that if I never stand up vocally and in my actions to live my life on
my own terms that I define when I have all the facts to make my own educated choices; I allow all the above to win and guide my life never steering my own course.
By not standing up to define your experiences and your own life - you give them a continued consent to tell you how to live, what you can and can not do, who you should be and should not be.
If you spend my life pleasing every one by their opinions then you can never set the facts of your life for you. No one should ever sale them self out like that unless they are making a huge financial profit and that's only if you are enjoying what you are doing and not hurting another person while doing it!
We are all equally dumb. We are all equally smart. We are equally beautiful. We are equally emotional disturbed and emotionally moved. We all lack a void inside that we wish some one else would dip down deep enough inside us to tickle our heart, to touch our funny bone, to create that life changing orgasm within that radiates our external life to a sheer high of happiness that no external substance could give us.
We all wish secretly these things. If I am lying or you do not believe me; then be real and ask yourself - Why do you read? Why do you watch TV? Why do you enjoy movies? Why do you love music? Why are you a sports addict? Why do you love porn?
Entertaining media is a void filler and nothing more. Entertaining media gives us what we directly do not have in our life but wish we could have. Books, art, and creativity are no different in getting that individual fill on too.
We all want to have purpose in life. We all want to have our voids filled. Thank goodness for media entertainment; we can be law abiding citizens and moral people at the same time by the submissions of what we watch and enjoy.We all can live out our voids of being a criminal, sexual deviant, and hero or villain. I do enjoy my own acceptance of self. In all that I am or not, real is all I have to be and give and share. When I quit these
daily purposes to fill my life; I am done anyways.
But without accepting all my mirror reflection details of my internal and external; I am nothing more than a fictional character too. No one should ever allow them self to become that. For in real life - the benefits are not as glorious as a movie and even more depressing and oppressing than the worst of story lines created in a book, show or movie. If we deny who we really are.
Sharing some quotes of ponder to think about. The strength you give in life must come from within yourself of who you are when no one is watching. The weaknesses you display to others in life by what you display to them will be all they remember you for anyways. So make each second count. Share with those worthy to enjoy your company and let the rest go. We may never have that perfect story life of the characters we want in our life or be that hero or villain we want to be but we can learn how to change, learn to gain, and be happy by admitting the voids we have and then seek to fill them!
If you seek perfect in a human, you are lying to yourself and will be let down. But when you understand, accept, embrace, be real, honest, and blunt truth as you see life from the facts of your own discoveries - life will happen for you. Happiness will be discovered. Lonely won't seem so alone. Evil won't sound or appear so bad. And good becomes endless.
Mind over matter is still the strongest asset we have to grow on in each of us. Until we comprehend this or accept the facts of our self and realize how easy life can be when we accept the facts we get from our entertainment media; then every one would be healthier, happier, and wonderfully full of the good stuff they enjoy about living life. No one can make life
happen for you - but you. Make it count!
Never give up control. Live life on your own terms! Walter White - Breaking Bad
You either die a hero, Or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. - Harvey Dent, Dark Knight
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