We are group of friends. Everyone’s working. Everyone’s earning well. While I spoke to one of them, she said “yes everyone has a job, but we turn jobless on weekend”. True. Everyone has a two day weekend. Before this I had never seen this as a problem. But after some thought I realised that this is where the whole problem began.
I remember when I was a child, a weekend was an access to unlimited playtime with your schoolmates or your neighbours. While in college, it meant unlimited access to Quake III. Until then a weekend was fun.
When I moved to Mumbai, being the one of the most happening places in India, I enjoyed a few weekends . Though later, I realized that enjoying meant paying for killing time. Let’s consider this situation, you call a friend on a weekend, you say “hey, let’s go to a movie or a restaurant, a club, etc, etc”. Try recalling when was the last time you were invited to a game of say, cricket or football? If you were invited, what you’d be thinking is “yeah, this is a good way of burning the calories I acquired having all that jalebi, lasagna, or the 10 pints of beer gulped the last evening”. Over the years, our thinking has changed a lot. Is this what a metropolitan lifestyle means?
On giving it a deeper thought, I have failed to understand on what actually entertains us nowadays. I have even had to take help of that idiot box lying in my drawing room. I hardly ever found a single television channel that hit the note right. One morning I got up and said “I’m to watch TV and spend the whole day at home”. This meant my TV and me together for one whole day. After an hour, you will not believe, I picked up the phone and ordered a pizza and along with it I bought garlic bread, coke, extra cheese topping and many other things that I didn’t need. I must admit that the advertisements were very entertaining but the shows weren’t.And then, you've got the option of doing work at home. Nah!, it'd be too middle aged. Another friend of mine advised that I engage myself in guitar, singing or dancing lessons. A good idea, quality pass time but it calls for a lot of discipline. There has got to be something....something!! God! . Did I say God? I haven't been to a temple either in years. So what are we game for? I really don't know. All I know, is with every passing day, I am growing fatter and lazier.
Tell me if you noticed this, people nowadays spend most of the day sleeping. It’s only in the evening they get up. That is actually a tactical move to spend time and not spend money. At daytime, there are several options to choose from. But at night, most of them don’t exist. So you end up spending lesser.
Turn nocturnal.
