As I was thinking of things people could buy me for my birthday, I noticed something interesting:  Everything I was asking for was some form of media [1], whether it was CDs, DVDs, video games, books, etc.  That got me thinking:  Everything in life basically revolves around these things.  We watch shows on TV, then talk about them with our friends.  We watch movies, then we play video games based on these movies.  We read books, then watch movies based on these books.  We save up our hard-earned money so we can buy these forms of media.  We even save up our hard-earned money to invest in bigger and better ways to display or transmit these forms of media.  We buy big TVs so we can watch hi-def movies.  We buy stereo systems so we can hear music in surround sound.  We wait in line at electronics stores to buy the newest and greatest video game systems.  All for what purpose?  To entertain ourselves.  To waste a little time.  How futile.  Yet how fun. 

[1] Some may call it entertainment.  Others, communication.  I call it media.  Either way, it's a method of transferring information in the form of speech, ideas, music, etc. from one person or group of people to another. #entertainment