ultimateskier: BUT IT’S NOT.
Do you not do anything on Shabbos? I know I do. The only way I can see it being solitary confinement is from the technology angle, and if you can’t detach from tech for 26 hours then you’re in worse shape than I’d think.
On Shabbos, I
-read
-go to friends
-take walks
-fress my head off
-have DMCs with my family (okay, so they’re not ALWAYS so deep or meaningful- so shoot me)
-babysit
-have a whole load of fun
No, I don’t email or text or write (okay, so the last bit is a bummer) or watch TV- but I still have fun.
Is your point that people don’t see the beauty of Shabbos or that they get turned off by Shabbos? Those are two completely different things.
Anybody who is teaching about Shabbos as lists of halachos and not as a beautiful experience is doing it because it’s his job-he’s a halacha teacher. I don’t think Shabbos is as underappreciated as it may seem, and I don’t think that if it is, it’s for the reasons you think.
Shabbos is one of my favorite days of the week (arguably, my week is divided into Shabbos, Sunday, and school days, but you know what I mean)- it’s a day to detox, to forget about school at least temporarily, to focus on my family, and to just focus on the more important things in general.