real life..
So i was walking around looking at stuffs today, mostly electronics, when i was bemused by an irony. They are making television images look so good that they actually look better than real life!
Are the things that are shown on tv supposed to be a re-enactment of real life? Why is it so that manufacturers are continuously researching and developing new ways to bring out better visual effects, aiming not just to recreate a scene you'd see with your own eyes but something that is better than what you'd normally see. Sharper colours, more vivid details.. The television brings out more than your eye can behold.
Maybe real life has become too boring. So much so that people have to come up with new things to enjoy aesthetically. There are not enough colours in the world, not enough scents in the morning air, not enough curves on the human body. And so we must alter it ourselves.
Maybe real life has disappointed us too many times. How many times have you wanted to go somewhere only to have your hopes drowned by the rain? Or how many times have someone you placed your faith in let you down? Or how many times have you thought that this one, this one, was the perfect one that would work out, the one to spend your life with only to be crushed by the realization you could have made a mistake. That is why we have to think up romantic fantasies, and create entire separate realms to live a perfect life in.
And as i looked at all the wares people were trying to sell, i wondered if any of these could actually make life better for me. If the purchase of a t-shirt would make me more attractive, or a book would give me new meaning to life. I would like to believe too, that purpose and meaning could be bought over the shelf for a bit of money, disguised under something with nice shiny plastic wrapping or whatever.
I wonder what'd make real life beautiful, and give me some meaning in life.
and they say His name is Jesus.
Are the things that are shown on tv supposed to be a re-enactment of real life? Why is it so that manufacturers are continuously researching and developing new ways to bring out better visual effects, aiming not just to recreate a scene you'd see with your own eyes but something that is better than what you'd normally see. Sharper colours, more vivid details.. The television brings out more than your eye can behold.
Maybe real life has become too boring. So much so that people have to come up with new things to enjoy aesthetically. There are not enough colours in the world, not enough scents in the morning air, not enough curves on the human body. And so we must alter it ourselves.
Maybe real life has disappointed us too many times. How many times have you wanted to go somewhere only to have your hopes drowned by the rain? Or how many times have someone you placed your faith in let you down? Or how many times have you thought that this one, this one, was the perfect one that would work out, the one to spend your life with only to be crushed by the realization you could have made a mistake. That is why we have to think up romantic fantasies, and create entire separate realms to live a perfect life in.
And as i looked at all the wares people were trying to sell, i wondered if any of these could actually make life better for me. If the purchase of a t-shirt would make me more attractive, or a book would give me new meaning to life. I would like to believe too, that purpose and meaning could be bought over the shelf for a bit of money, disguised under something with nice shiny plastic wrapping or whatever.
I wonder what'd make real life beautiful, and give me some meaning in life.
and they say His name is Jesus.
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