By Klaus Döring
Your body releases endorphins when you participate in entertaining or fun activities. This chemical is known to relieve stress and pain. Therefore, entertainment can bring a degree of happiness into your life. You can entertain yourself in different ways.
The most simple answer is to entertain yourself when you don’t have any energy left. Avoid spending time on entertainment when you’re most energetic if you have more productive things to do, like work, taking care of someone, school, etc.
Ask yourself what it is that you want to achieve in your life, your passion and dream. Once we will be able to feed ourselves with our own thoughts, then we will not.
Not a single day goes by without terrible news. It makes us tired and sick – mentally and physically. Many give up and withdraw in their loneliness. A legal solitude from “somewhere up there”.
Many wonder whether it is good for our future, for the economy, for education, and for our personal life and its surroundings. Well, I don’t want to swap with those up there ahd having to make the right decisions at the right time. You can already notice some things, people are becoming more and more aggressive, no matter where in the world.
Let’s entertain ourselves! Quite simply and clearly expressed. Since my retirement but staying longer in my home office, I’ve been trying to entertain myself. I enjoy writing more – writing was and still is one of my hobbies. I enjoy playing my different instruments. I ignored that for years.
I enjoy listening to music from my incredibly large record collection back to 1936. I put my photo album collection in the right order. Incidentally, this is a wonderful task, since I am currently working on my biography.
Go bowling, play LIFE, or do something you haven’t done since you were a kid. This can get people laughing and will keep them from taking themselves too seriously. Play a light game of basketball or volleyball. This will keep people entertained and active.
Entertaining means to talk with my wife and family personally too, and not only by messenger. Playing with the dogs, gardening, watching the daily TV-mass, praying … .
Yes, it’s our new abnormality we have to live with. We must not get down. Trust in God. It’s all in His hands.
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