Maybe I’m just old but I really don’t get half the programs on Cartoon Network. But apparently kids do. As I sit listening to the rain pound against my hotel window (we’re under a tornado watch!) Tyler is absorbed in that silly program about the Grim Reaper. Bill and Mandy or something like that. Anyway, he’s been watching TV all day since the weather is too bad to leave the hotel and he’s totally enjoying the silly jokes and shenanigans being displayed. Periodically I have glanced at the screen to see if I can get a handle on what’s going on. There was some burping and gas passing and other silly jokes (something about Uranus and another one about not being able to pick your friends or your friends noses) and I found myself wondering what happened to Fred Flintstone and The Jetsons?
Today’s crop of cartoons don’t make a lot of sense. That’s the conclusion I have drawn. Then again, maybe that’s the point. They’re not supposed to make any sense. They’re supposed to entertain the kids and make them laugh. Cartoon Network seems to exist simply to make kids laugh. What a novel idea!
Although the programs are silly, I realized that maybe I should sit down and give CN another chance. And you know what, I found myself laughing in spite of myself. I also realized that maybe a good laugh was just what I needed. I spend so much time worrying about adult problem that I don’t always take time to enjoy the simple things in life. What could be simpler than a good old-fashioned belly laugh? I’ve spent the past month worrying about when I’m going to be able to finally move into my house. I focus on the fact that I’m not home but in a hotel instead of looking at the pluses. My electricity was finally turned back on. For the first time in over two years there was music playing in my house. My microwave and refrigerator are plugged in. So now when we’re working we can have something cold to drink and nuke food. And we have a fully-functioning bathroom to boot!
Perhaps us old folk can learn from the younger generation. Most of them take life just as it is presented to them without all the stress and strife that adults sometimes bring on themselves. Maybe a daily dose of an inane cartoon is what we need. Have you had your dose today?
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