I recently wondered why I am so addicted to the sports. While thinking about this, an interesting concept became clear to me - everything that we do, is to be entertained. We love to say - "Universe, Entertain Me!"
Now you may ask, how does this work? Let me attempt an explanation.
Every activity we do, is to achieve a certain Desire. A Desire is nothing but a drug, nothing but a figment of our imagination that we metamorphose into an Action, into something that is done to directly achieve and experience that Desire. And when we actually complete these Actions, we realize the emotions that accompany the Action, i.e. the Enjoyment, or the Pain and Agony. And we cherish these emotions, and attach our identity to them. We are hooked on to them.
As humans, we are addicted to the sensation of feeling good or feeling bad about Actions, and therein lies the connection between Entertainment and our Emotions. We so into the Game of Life, that we do not realize that we are addicted to that Game. It's like we are playing ourselves in a cutting-edge, complex, imaginative XBox game. And we love it. We love that feeling of taking a chance on our future, of gambling, of achieving success. We are on this planet for a fixed duration of time, and since we have the time, we Gamble. :) We roll the dice over and over again, until it is time for us to depart.
It's funny how your Career is a source of enjoyment, and a source of pain and agony.
It's also funny how War is a source of enjoyment, and a source of pain and agony.
It's also funny how Love is a source of enjoyment, and a source of pain and agony.
It's funny, but it's also True.
The underlying factor to all of the above is Entertainment. We love to say - "Universe, Entertain Me!"
