Play the cricket yourself and see how it rushes your blood, how it exercises your body.
It doesn't matter, you may be able to hit six or not. You may not be able to spin a ball. But still, play.
So how do we cultivate focus among all these temptations and desires, screens
phones, you know, entertainment, all of that?
You’ve heard the term hijacking of mind?
I have heard of the term hijacking. Yeah.
Hijacking the heart, hijacking the feelings. That's what screen time does to us.
Recently, I had a problem. My grandchild, he just completed two years in December,
on 23rd December. Each time he comes in my lap, “Dada, I want to see Cocomelon..”
So we were both hooked on Cocomelon, and then we decided one day no more Cocomelon.
Collectively? Was it you or was it him who decided that?
Mother and myself, his mother, and especially more from her side.
And, for two days we had trouble.
But after that he started engaging himself in a little cart and, you know, different things.
Many people came to rescue. And after two days of this, no screen time, no TV time,
he got diverted into other creative things. And within the last week,
the change I see, it's simply amazing.
His creativity and the word, you know, little children, they speak words that can amaze you.
“How in the world, where did he pick it up from?”
Manners, composure - everything changed just after dropping this Cocomelon business.
Somehow, when you are watching, it may be a great article, it may be a great drama,
doesn't matter, but somehow your mind is carried by someone else.
And for that period, your creativity is lost.
That means you are not thinking on your own You are always giving examples from the movie,
you are sharing stories from the movies, sharing stories from the cartoons,
sharing stories from the messages you receive, sharing stories from the news you read.
What is your part? What do you have to say about it? About nothing actually.
Problem comes when you say, “Oh, what do you say about the comments made by so and so?”
Why am I bothered with it? How is it your business? Mind your business. When I'm practicing as a doctor,
it's okay to gain so much knowledge and information.
Let's use it with a purpose, for creativity, for enhancing knowledge so that you can serve better.
What Taliban did or what Mr. Putin did or whosoever, why are you bothered about it?
Yeah, it doesn't actually affect your civic life.
Even cricket for example. I'm going to irritate a lot of people, perhaps.
That's a national pastime. Yeah.
That also hijacks your mind. Play the cricket yourself and see how it rushes your blood,
how it exercises your body. It doesn't matter, you may be able to hit six or not.
You may not be able to spin a ball. But still, play.
I'm not against cricket as long as you yourself are playing.
Right. It's very different to immerse yourself in one activity than to passively consume someone else doing that.
That's where we get hijacked and lose our abilities.