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Fun Tasks To Liven Up Family Get Together
Family get-togethers can be fun-filled, full of laughter with every member leaving with a tonne of precious memories. But you should know how to make these get-togethers fun. Otherwise, you’ll end up with some gossip, some food – that’s it! Know how to add the essential spice to your family get-togethers by including these fun activities:
Karaoke night
Who says you need a crowd to karaoke? Your family, immediate and extended is enough to liven up a karaoke night! You can get a small karaoke player and set the stage with instrumental versions of all your favorite family songs! The trick is – don’t reveal the lyrics, let whoever sing however they want to- that will add to the chaos and madness! Watch your loved ones break into impromptu dances and get totally engrossed in fun!
Movie night
Set a movie date with your family and watch back to back comedies, romcoms or family favorites. Load up with pizzas and popcorn so that you’re sorted for the night! The fun that everyone will have – interrupting dialogues, singing songs, passing comments while chomping on the junk food is something everyone will remember and make sure you organize more such movie nights even later!
Backyard camping
If you have a huge backyard, why not set up camp out there? Especially when all the family members don’t have the time to make it to an out-of-town camping spot, why not make use of your backyard to set up your tents and have fun right there? You can even have your campfire with the tents surrounding it! Cook your meals out in the open and have the time of your lives!
Costume night
Why wait for Halloween to dress up when you can do it any time of the year? Come up with a theme, post it on your family Whatsapp group and watch the hilarious ways everyone dresses up! It’s fun, and you can even announce prizes for the best (or funniest!) costume!
Treasure hunt
Treasure hunts are super cool to play –especially when you have a huge group along! You can team up members in a way that no member is immediately related to the other – watch the madness ensure form this point itself! And then set up a nice treasure hunt! A fun activity that can be enjoyed by all members!
Have fun – make memories!
How Technology Is Crippling Us
Whenever we hear of some innovation, discovery – we’re all excited about it. We feel good, knowing that this has been developed to make our lives more comfortable than they already are. And it’s true too; every innovation has come in to resolve some aspect of our life which posed itself as a difficulty in front of us. Knowing that technology has its own boons, pros, advantages and all the other positive words that fit in here, have we bothered to see what technology has done to us? The cynical part of it? No, because until our lives are made more accessible, we have nothing to worry about – even if it means an invasion of privacy or dampening our intellectual capacity or harming us physically – we voluntarily don’t want to get into the negatives of technological developments, because we know to what extent it has intruded in our lives.
There’s no turning back for us now; we’ve already got the taste of life made easy with technology. But it’s heartening to see that though very few, but people are realizing what exposure to social media, apps, unnecessary electronic goods is doing to us. We have no time to talk face to face to people; We have no energy to pick our eyes glued to those screens and look at the nature around us.
We have no time for our family, for our friends. We’re ready to become obese or put on unhealthy weight yet we’ll rely on machines and equipment to do our daily chores for us. We don’t think creatively anymore- we have even creativity spoon fed to us.
If we look back – all the years before the dawn of technology, human life was like it should be – full of life, emotions. That generation was super healthy – they probably got their first spectacles when they crossed 55 years of age. They were healthy – because they did their tasks by themselves and did not rely on machines to do so.
It’s disheartening to see the young and little kids getting addicted and used to all kind of technologies around them. I often wonder, if this is the future generation, I seriously don’t know where we’re heading to.
Attempting to revert to nature, to the place where we belong to them is the urgent need of the hour. We need to cut down our screen time, look beyond – connect with each other and nature. And there’s no better time to do this than today…