I was reading one of my favorite blogs today and came across this post....
Hey! We're not as weird as I thought we were! As of right now - there are 150 other people over there who have posted how they don't do TV either.
Now, don't get me wrong. We've had our days of TV. There was a time when I worked my life around CSI, Law and Order, and all the different varieties of all of them. We saw the first couple of seasons of Survivor, Big Brother, and have caught a couple of American Idol episodes. There were lots of sitcoms I was there for as well. I hated the days when we would have to miss one of them. And, then somehow all of that changed. I don't know if we just became busier, or the shows seemed to have the same story just rehashed differently, but, slowly, somehow, we've just gotten out of the TV habit. Now if you come to our house on an evening that there is "nothing going on", you will find our family all there in the family room, each of us with a book or magazine. I often think how "unfair" it is when they have Turn Off the TV week at school. It's not something we have to try at. ;) We still have a Netflix account to see the occasional movie, but it's not something we plan our lives around anymore.
I read a newspaper editorial once in which the author wrote that he wished more people would turn off the TV. Watching TV, he thought, showed that you thought that someone else's life is more interesting than yours. You are not out going and doing. You only have one life to live and why spend it watching someone else?
So, when people at work, church, or where ever start talking about the latest episode of Dancing with the Stars, I just have to sit back and listen quietly. I don't have a lot to add to the conversation. It doesn't bother me a bit. I wouldn't trade all the extra stuff I get done around here in the evenings for TV shows that are a one hit wonder. Since school has started, I've made 2 skirts, 1 top, 1 pair of pants, read several books, made some cards, plus all the regular laundry/dishes/running kids around that normally goes on in the evenings. I think our lives are more peaceful now as well. There is still the usual noise that is around, but not the constant background noise to contend with.
I don't know why we didn't do this years ago!
3 comments:
I know you are right in theory... but the reality of it... EEP! I'm skeered! :op
I have cut way back on my TV watching over the past five years. I even stopped watching General Hospital early this summmer, and I've been watching GH since I was 10 years old! BUT I am nowhere close to cutting out TV completely. My life would be so empty... LOL!
I grew up w/ no TV and it saddens me now how much I like it! I'm proud of you for being so good and getting so much done!!!
Hi Amy, I'm Sheila's friend Katie and I used to be in your ward, and have started clicking over from her bog. I like so much of what you have to say. We, too, made the switch kind of gradually from planning schedules around favorite shows (yikes!) to not watching any TV and only the occassional movie. Our family has benefitted in so many ways - more peace, more unity, more accomplished in a day, to name a few. I love knowing there are others out there who have discovered the same thing!
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