excerpt taken from To Be Told by Dan B. Allender
“What if we asked the question, ‘So what?’ during and after every television show and movie and poem and novel? My guess is that we wouldn’t waste as much time in the drivel of mere entertainment…”
As I was reading through this book (filled with some pretty interesting stuff by the way) I was struck by this section. I’ve been cutting back on the pointless tv shows I watch, on the books I choose to spend my time reading, music, etc but this particular method struck me as so. duh. and yet I had never thought about it before…
So many movies are cute, funny, exciting but when they are over did I really get anything out of them?
I’m thankful to be able to say that all my favorite movies did have deeper meanings for me but certainly if I counted up the total movies I’ve seen in my life (and I’d rather not thank you) and subtracted the number of movies that had meaning…I don’t think that number would be drastically smaller.
Sadly we all fall into being consumers, smiling at the flashing images and sounds that drown us out from real life and provide relief from stress.
I don’t think that everything I watch or listening to needs to be for school, but it should be informing me, teaching me, enlightening me somehow.
Sometimes things simply need to inspire me. I watch an interesting fantasy movie and suddenly I have an idea for a new story!
I think if I used the method of “So What?” more often, I would have a more fulfilling “free-time” life.
Speaking of my life, I unfourtanetly will not be continuing blogging three days a week. Staring down my school load of this upcoming year, I don’t want to commit to extra things like blogging instead of homework. That isn’t to say that if I need a homework break or I have a brilliant though I won’t blog it. But I won’t make a special effort just to blog until I at least get my schedule down (say October or later?)
