OBSESSED WITH SOAP OPERAS

 BY WINNIE MAIYO

Having moved in with my close friend I thought life would be a beautiful thing with a treasured one around. Things turned out different as it gave me a hard blow on my face; the girl Angela turned out to be a soap opera addict. Having been close in our years only high schools separated us but we finally caught up in campus. My first semester in campus had given me a nasty experience that I thought that it was not a place for me. Second semester we decided we should relocate and move in together. After moving in I discovered that my friend had a peculiar character. Angela had this obsession with movies especially soap operas and that nothing could hinder or deter her from watching the soaps not even her class assignments.  She did not even appreciate my being around and the stay was not exciting as I had thought it would be. This experience made me relate it with an article had read on effects of being engrossed in movies a lot apart from being taken by many as a leisure activity.

Soap operas can have very devastating effects one of them is wastage of time, this is because people get themselves in situations in that they cannot do their work on time and they end up rushing over things which brings about null results. For Angela she could not complete her assignments on time which made her frustrated with and she could end up submitting half haggard assignments.

Another impact is that most people tend to adopt the character traits of those acting and they end up forgetting that it was just but a movie and hence they try to compare themselves with the woman in the movie because of their personalities and some need up aping their traits. For instance, we could watch a movie and after my friend would say that she liked a certain character and even would like to behave like her. The character she was talking about had been heartbroken and she developed some anti-heartbreak that made  her  gain relieve after a short period of time. I was taken aback by this because she was not herself again; here she was trying to ape some people whom she didn’t even recognize that they were acting. This I came to concur that her decision making had been impaired and she made very irrational decisions.

Another major impacts addiction, people become so addicted in soap operas that they can vaguely differentiate between today and tomorrow. This makes them abandon things that could make them grow positively and becomes slaves of soap operas hence wasting time engrossed on T.Vs as I told you earlier Angela would boycott classes with an aim of following a certain series that had left her in suspense.

Summing up, soap operas are not good to any individual at either level it may be used for entertainment but not for educational purposes. Kids and teens watching these operas will exactly do the things they have learned from soaps later when they grown up. This is true as I came to realize that Angel’s addiction was as a result of a past