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THE HIDDEN COST OF ENTERTAINMENT
<p>I pant heavily as the weight of it all crushes down on me.</p><p>I run as fast as my legs can take me. I am tired. I breathe because that is the loudest I can speak. </p><p>Tears of regret stream down my face as I remember how it all started.</p><p><br/></p><p>I loved it all.</p><p>It was new, and it gave me peace.</p><p>I ran to it whenever there was a problem I could not solve. I let it hug me when the storm raged. It became my cover at night when I did not want to think about the hard truth before me.</p><p><br/></p><p>There are different things that entertain the human race.</p><p>Mine was the screen.</p><p>Scrolling.</p><p>Anything and everything that shines light on the face.</p><p>I laughed.</p><p>I cried.</p><p>I became emotional.</p><p>I danced to the rhythm of everything that appeared before the screen.</p><p>I mourned with the dead. I danced with the excited. I frowned with the angered. I rejoiced with the one in love.</p><p><br/></p><p>For a moment, I lived a thousand lives without leaving my spot.</p><p>I thought I was living.</p><p>I did not know I was slowly disappearing from my own life.</p><p>What was once new became familiar, and what became familiar soon became an addict.</p><p>Its chains wrapped around my neck as it dragged me across the cold floor.</p><p>I struggled.</p><p><br/></p><p>But each time, its seduction won me over.</p><p>Just one more scroll.<br/></p><p>One more episode.</p><p>One more video.</p><p>One more laugh.</p><p>One more escape from the life waiting for me outside the screen.</p><p><br/></p><p>And then I looked at myself.</p><p>I had no value left in the things I stared at.</p><p>Everything was just a worthless screen, yet it was draining the value I had once built before I met it.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>The dreams I once chased were now waiting for me in silence.</p><p>The time I once had was gone.<br/></p><p>The person I once wanted to become was standing somewhere behind me, wondering when I stopped running towards her.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>I called it entertainment.</p><p>But what do you call something that takes your time, steals your attention, weakens your discipline and leaves you emptier than it found you?<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Another might call it cruelty.<br/></p><p>Because it has no real comfort.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>It is only a fling of time.</p><p>And sometimes, you do not realise what it has cost you until you finally turn around… and realise how deeply you have buried yourself.</p>
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