Tongue-in-Cheek: The Funny Side of Life

by Khyrunnisa A.

How weird is this? You take advantage of various inventions to make yourself comfortable, read inactive—mobile and cordless phones to render you immobile, vehicles to transport you to your place of work or wherever you wish to go, lifts or escalators to take you to different floors, chairs to sit on as you work or relax, cosy settees in front of the TV to make you snug as you transform into a couch potato, munching potato chips…And just when, smartphone in hand, you think smugly that life is one lazy, idyllic picnic, there comes this alarming assertion—sitting is the new smoking.