I once became a couch potato.
It made me realize that too much TV destroys an innocent mind.
That was when I grasped how TV poisoned me with so many different ideas that can be easily persuaded to someone who’s been clinging to TV for life. It feeds us something which we think we can’t get from the people around us; it gives us instant satisfaction in whatever ways we imagine is impossible to acquire by our mere self. We feel certain emotions that are impermanent, virtual; they just play with our mind to the extent that we don’t know what we really want, we change our mind so easily and sometimes get a one-sided affection — obsession to simply put.
Now I understood how to get rid of TV as the center of one’s life.
That way, we can enjoy the pleasure, and entertainment and the likes in this little brainless box without the consequence of pouring all our attention to it and forgetting the real world, the real emotions, the real problem, the real necessity, the REALITY.
Don’t get too attached to the extent that you can’t even turn it off for a moment. Release extreme emotion, let go of the things you thought you couldn’t live without. People do come and go, so do these emotions that we get from this little thing called TV that almost every household has. If we don’t learn how to get too attach, we’ll end up hurting ourselves.
Turn the TV off. Turn on the mind. Hear the silence; listen to what it tells.
Before, I told myself, ‘It feels better that I don’t get to watch TV for that reason I will not be aware of what is shown nowadays, that way I will not have further things to think of, then I won’t get disappointed if I will not be able to watch this series that I am clinging to. I’m complete. Nothing is lacking. Nothing is missing.
Yes. That leads me to my weakness. I get easily consumed by what I read, what I watch, what I see, what I hear, and that is because I cling too much, I get too attached, contrary to my realization.
Maybe it’s just me or maybe there are couples of individuals out there that falls to my declarations — TV is a distraction if not made use for its sole purpose.
This also includes the littler one than the TV — cellphone.
A couple of days ago I went to have a social media detox, which relatively lessen the time I spent on my phone which also taught me to appreciate other things in a more passionate way. Taught me to have control over myself as to not to be controlled by these technologies.
But time and time again, especially during this pandemic era, technology made our life a lot bearable, made a lot of our limitations possible in a newer perspective and approach — and I couldn’t be more thankful that I am living in this generation.
What I’m simply trying to say is inventions are made from necessities, they are not all these things that I just mentioned in the first place. They become “that way” depending on how we consume them — anything that is too much may have an ugly impact, we may not notice it right away, but it’ll consolidate and undoubtedly impact our life one way or another.
