PSYCHOLOGY OF ENTERTAINMENT

Entertainment includes - fun , recreation , play , pleasure and amusement . all these words for things and activities used to entertain people , when they are not working .
Recreation means to create some way out to run away from your allotted / given / aimed work . it shows that you are not getting satisfaction in your own job or work and feeling bored . the situation is that , because of one or more than one reason you are not mentally happy with your job /work . so you run away to do some other work or to watch some other doing his work .
The time thus you put in so called entertainment is TIME-OUT from your working - life- span . the time given to entertainment is minus your work -life .
This period of time in entertainment is minus your CREATIVE- LIFE - SPAN . (because you are doing or watching other doing is not always creative - except conditions given below .)
When you are entertaining yourself you may be acting as vicarious - player/doer and watching others working . it is , because , watching other acting is easier than self .
Entertainment is useful when - 1 - used for learning and learning takes place when there is positive modification in your behavior . 2 - when you get trained in the same field / faculty / . 3- when you are one of the judges in that activity . other than these , all the ways to entertain you are non - creative and runaways .
THE BEST WAY to avoid entertainment therefore , is to create pleasure / fun / joy / amusement / play /interest in your own work . take your work not as task but as pleasure . any work , how tough and hard can be changed into fun . READING/ LEARNING can be as easy and pleasing as game and movies only with interest put to them Lord Krishna calls it EXPERTIZE IN ANY ACTION IS YOGA ( YOGAH KARMASU KAUSHALAM ) . thus for an expert there is no place for entertainment / watching (only and not acting ) others doing , in their life . entertainment is mostly for those who are non-active and non- creative .
IN brief in the same way to taking of drugs and smoking etc. is not RELAXING but rather running away from real life to forgetful - life and the act of killing oneself for the time being so that to avoid creativity and real life . it is intermittent -slow suicide .
This is psychology behind so called entertainment and relaxing .