Take a look around !
November 25, 2006Yup, take a look around, and ask yourself, are we getting uglier?
Now take a close second look, and ask yourself the same question. What did you observe?
What I observed is that we are !
- More than 70% of the kids below the age 15 are spectacled.
- Nearly half of them are obese.
- And the same amount has taken to computer games and other modes of indoor entertainment apart from watching ‘junk’ on the television adding to the apathy called specks!
- Book reading and outdoor gaming is for those who can’t afford a cable connection or a computer !
- We would rather spend Rs. 150 on watching a trash movie in the cinemas at the cost of 3 hours of your precious time than buying something worth reading. (Well, at least I have the option to choose from the books I am hoping to read. Can’t say the same for movies though.)
- The food we eat ? Mal nutritious, and we call ourselves educated!
So where do you fall?
Quotes
Reading all the good books is like conversation with the
finest men of past centuries.
Rene Descartes
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you,
but the one which makes you think.
James McCosh
These days most people ARE educated enough to know what healthy foods are… but education doesn’t affect biology, and biology compels us to eat all we can, especially of high-fat foods. Is it possible to resist biological urges? Sure. Can many people do it even for a few minutes, much less forever? No… and that’s why we keep getting fatter.
Comment by Omni — November 26, 2006 @ 3:27 am