Television Overload!

TV is the sedative of the nation.

I have recently been evaluating the way I live my life day to day.  I broke my schedule down to evaluate how I typically spend each part of my day. The format goes like so…

Early Morning (5-8am) – Workout, Quiet Time, Go to work

Morning (8am-12pm) – Work

Afternoon (12-5pm) – Work

Evening (5-8pm) – Go Home, Finish leftover tasks, Watch TV

Night (8-11pm) – Watch TV, Sleep

This schedule over a weeks time ends up with at least three hours of television per day.  That comes out to 15 hours per week (not including weekends), which is more that a total work day. So that mean that out of a week, I have spent almost a total day worth of time staring at a box.

TV is the sedative of the nation.

- Sedative – Something that causes you to be unaware and unresponsive to your surroundings.

How much time is lost while staring the TV. How many opportunities to enjoy life are lost because we are to unaware of our surroundings. Is there anyone of us who can truly claim that our life quality has increased with the amount of television we watch.

One of the ways I personally show affection is quality time.  In the past, I believed that watching TV together is quality time, but this is not so.  I can watch television with a complete stranger.  Television allows us to “spend time” with people but truly not be there. How many families “spend time” together but are still falling apart because of no real connection.

We only get one shot at making our live matter. We only get one chance to impact the people around us.  At the end our our life, we will not evaluate ourselves on the quantity of TV time, but on the quality we passed on to those around us. I am making a commitment to watching much less TV and living a lot more life!