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Unfortunately the inability to sit still is lost on people not just in public places and events but also in the privacy of their own homes. The minds of people are always stimulated with outside influences, whether it is TV, internet or phones. They feel like they are wasting time if they are not doing something...anything.
Our ancestors knew the importance of stillness, quietness and meditation. I don't know why it is so hard for us to be in the moment and stop moving. We also have this silly desire to be connected to outside at all times.
Unfortunately the inability to sit still is lost on people not just in public places and events but also in the privacy of their own homes. The minds of people are always stimulated with outside influences, whether it is TV, internet or phones. They feel like they are wasting time if they are not doing something...anything.
Our ancestors knew the importance of stillness, quietness and meditation. I don't know why it is so hard for us to be in the moment and stop moving. We also have this silly desire to be connected to outside at all times.
Yeah. You're right about this. Case in point? Last summer, I was on a plane across the Pacific to New Zealand. The woman next to me was in her 20s. Aside from the normal chitchat at the beginning of the flight, I really didn't say much to her.
So I buried myself in my book, the perfect thing to do on a 13-hour flight (I can't sleep on planes, no matter how hard I try). She watched one movie for ten minutes, switched to another movie, diddled with her iPhone, fidgeted some more, tried listening to some music, read the in-flight magazine, fidgeted some more, leaned across me to look out the window (There is nothing to see mid-Pacific at 40,000 feet. Trust me on this), fidgeted some more, napped for an hour, woke up, listened to more music, played some more games, and finally stared at the ceiling.
Finally, she said to me. "Wow. You've almost finished with that book. Whatcha reading?" I named the book. "I don't like to read. I would just get too bored."
I vote: curmudgeon. To me, you didn't really cite anything rude at the performance. IE: If I'm going to cough.... I would be thinking I darn well better find a cough drop! Just to be polite. If your filming the performance... then there will be camera fiddling.
Though I would be the person reading on the plane.
This was a performance of a high school orchestra. I think most of the people in the audience were parents, family members, friends, and others, who are there to support the performers. They were not there because they enjoy that kind of music. Cut them some slack.
I love classical music but hate the expectation that audience members have to sit there like corpses. One time I read on a classical music forum a post from a guy who was angry that a woman sitting nearby had an oxygen tank, making these "swish" sounds. Quite a few people were sympathetic to him.
My friend asked a group of Italians to be quiet recently at a theatre in the west end of London. They got all pissy about it.
It's really interesting how entitled people feel to ruin the experience of everyone around them with their incessant yapping.
Try being a teacher nowdays and see how kids have lost the ability to sit still and focus.
Something is majorly wrong. We are over-stimulating the kids with a barage of light, sound, and movement. Nobody can sit and think anymore. There is no independent activity in our brains. We need stimuli to react to. How sad is that?
Classical music concerts can get incredibly dull and boring. I like classical but it can get boring.
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Originally Posted by CocoTheNut
This was a performance of a high school orchestra. I think most of the people in the audience were parents, family members, friends, and others, who are there to support the performers. They were not there because they enjoy that kind of music. Cut them some slack.
I love classical music but hate the expectation that audience members have to sit there like corpses. One time I read on a classical music forum a post from a guy who was angry that a woman sitting nearby had an oxygen tank, making these "swish" sounds. Quite a few people were sympathetic to him.
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To me, you didn't really cite anything rude at the performance. IE: If I'm going to cough.... I would be thinking I darn well better find a cough drop! Just to be polite. If your filming the performance... then there will be camera fiddling. 
