Watching Lives

Most of everyone are bystanders of events, watching as it unfolds daily on our TVs, in our living rooms. We make comments, laugh, cringe and even curse at our screens. The media is also extended now to the realm of internet, although the idea is just the same. We watch events.

Don't you think it is so convenient that we can switch our TV channels if we don't like what we see, or turn it off because we are tired and want to go to sleep? I don't know about you, but sometimes I am really thankful that I can survive another day without a scratch. As the wise people said,"Shit Happens", well you never know when your turn is. It just does.

And here we are, trolling around in our daily life, minding our own business, seemingly detached from events around us. We look at "them", those who are now in the "main" screen, becoming the "major" actors to scenes that we are seeing.

These days, it is Iraq, Afghanistan, more Iraq, some old politicians, singers, on and on. If it is your turn to be the major actors, well, better pray that the scene is a good one, not one of those gory and bloody ones.