The average person works about 8 hours a day – facing daily stress, timings, clients, deadlines, meeting, the whole works! Afterwards, he comes home to relax, have dinner, enjoy time with his loved ones and entertain himself for the little time he has left in the day. What are his options? Basically something like this:

- Watch an episode from his favorite series – Desperate Housewives, Lost, Heroes, House, Kyle XY, Grey’s Anatomy, Nip/Tuck, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, etc… – after all, that’s what everybody’s been talking about lately at the office;

- Play one of those videogames he’s been keeping in the shelves for the past 6 months – for either the Computer, the PS2 or PS3 or PSP, the Nintendo Wii or DS, or even the XBOX360;

- Do a movie update – Pirates of the Caribbean, Spider Man, Fantastic Four, 300, The Simpsons Movie, Ratatouille, Shrek 3, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Transformers, Die Hard 4.0, etc… – or he could rent one, if only he could choose one;

- Catch up on his reading – either see the various bookmarked internet websites he’s been trying to keep track of, or one of the 10 advised books on Amazon with an average of 200 pages each, or just the Newspaper;

- Listen to those songs everybody is listening to now – he probably wonders what happened to Take That by now…

- Or he could just watch TV – one of the 40000 channels available, with different perspectives on the same subject and news.

So, the major question is: what to pick? What is a person to do with these many options?

Welcome to the Stresstetainment, a new form of stress born from the over-exposure to too many sources of entertainment at once. We have too many engaging and important options to fit in the small amount of free time we have each day and on the weekend – and of course, considering the average married man with two kids, this means even less free time. Continue reading ‘Stresstetainment’