By: Ageh Success Chidera
Entertainment today has moved from it’s conventional sense. Long before smartphones, social media, and streaming platforms, individuals created joy out of the simplest things. Childhood fun was raw, real, and unforgettable.
Flashback to those days when a child would wake up with body pains from the previous night’s endless play, nursing wounds from trying to prove ‘Messi’ on the football field, or jump out of bed at the sound of your friends shouting boju boju o! The joy of simply being in the midst of your friends, running around in just underwear, was unmatched. There were the late evening tyre rides, the rainy days that became our playground, the boys owning the streets with football, while the girls busied themselves playing Daddy and Mummy.
When the sun went down, nights came alive with nawa nawa games, some ending in laughter, others in tears for the weaker ones. Entertainment did not stop there. Sometimes, everyone squeezed into the landlady’s house to watch SpongeBob, or we would rush home excitedly just to catch the next episode of Ben 10 or Power Rangers. Aspiring to be the power ranger yellow someday, hmm… sigh in impossible. Neighbors gathered in the cool evening breeze to gist about the day’s happenings. Siblings fought over the remote, each insisting on whose channel should win. That was what entertainment used to be and it was beautiful.
Fast forward to today, welcome to the gbas gbos of modern entertainment. Nobody needs to gather around a single television any more, one can get his/her full dose of gist and laughter from the comfort of their own corner. Instagram reels, TikTok videos, endless streaming, everything is right at their fingertips
What once made childhood a memorable one is now considered old fashioned, even boring. The innocence of gathering, sharing, and simply being together has been replaced with scrolling, liking, and swiping.
