We might all sometimes, lying on the bed, incapable of recalling what the TV show we have just watched a couple of hours ago, feel like experiencing an empty day after getting home from the tough-boring-flattering-rushing work.
Even if we do have our so-called “pressure-releasing entertainment”, our day may just be gone like nothing.
Why? Because an entertainment is only for sensationally entertaining us, not mentally enriching us. We don’t feel mental enrichment from an entertainment. However, mental enrichment is what really makes our life colorful.
Choose one thing to enrich our mentality a day. By doing so we grow, even just a little.
Major difference exist between a pure entertainment and a mental enrichment. How do we separate them?
Entertainments: those activities we can hardly find any reasons to refuse.
Enrichment: those activities we may sometimes feel lazy about.
Having fried chicken, totally easy, may grant us excess body weights.
Watching a TV show, totally relaxing, may grant us emptiness after laughing.
Surfing social community websites, totally fulfilling our curiousness, may grant us a sensation of loss comparing with others.
Exactly, we all like doing those effort-free activities. However, we still need a source of our enrichment.
For examples:
Reading, even just a few pages for nurturing our mind, requires patience, thinking, and concentration.
Drawing, even just a few outlines for splashing our creativity, requires thought, creativity, and character presentation.
Writing, even just a few paragraphs for recording our thoughts, requires experience, organizing, and persistence.
Guitar practicing, even just a few bars on the score for curing our spirit, requires framework, rhythm, and hard-working.
Cooking, even just a small dish for loving our family, requires, culinary skills, care, and love.
Working out, even just a few push-ups for building our strength, requires endurance, tolerance, and stamina.
Such activities, unlike those for simply releasing pressure, may be accompanied with pressure from another aspect — the pressure for improvement — fighting the laziness.
By doing those mentally enriching activities, each time we conquer our laziness and gain progress, we grow.
As people gradually getting used to dazzling, noisy stimulation and crowded lifestyle all around our daily life, we forget how to get along with loneliness. That is why we find ourselves feeling empty after the party is over.
Seeking a mental enrichment, we learn to get along with ourselves again, and most importantly, we learn to cope with loneliness.
We do not have to completely give up our entertainments. We just need to add something else. Through reading, drawing, learning, creating, exercising, writing, or whatever activities that will help us grow, only a little time a day is needed for enriching our mind, our spirit, and our thought.
With mental enrichment, our emptiness is filled up. We may no longer feel like doing nothing in the end of the day. Instead, we grow!
As the title says, a growth a day may irrigate our life.
