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Health & Fitness
The Dying Art of Having Active Fun
In the cacophony of social media and OTT platforms, we lost the art of having active fun — and being fitter in the process
In the day and time of the internet, countless OTT platforms, Instagram reels, and YouTube shorts (pardon me if I missed a few there), our preferred way to have fun is being bombarded with all kinds of fun and funny videos, or binge on movies and web series endlessly.
There is nothing particularly wrong with that kind of entertainment. Only there is nothing good about it either, simply because it is passive entertainment, which makes us mentally and physically sluggish, and a lack of physical and mental activity has proven long-term disadvantages for health.
If you are too tired after a long and hard day of work, perhaps there is little you can do except sit with a bowl of popcorn (very unhealthy) in front of your television and watch something entertaining, from a web series to a match. But if you are imagining the tiredness (often people do that), or overplaying the amount of work you did at the office in your head, you might want to engage in a more active form of entertainment than gluing your eyes to the television.
