Thursday, December 28, 2006

Read A Book Instead


I'm just considering how much time do I waste on everyday habbits. One of them is TV. I regularly don't watch TV. But I never lose a hot national football match or Olympics games or FIFA World Cup matches. There's a nightly comic series and an artistic film each weekend which is always censored. So I'm lying. I do watch TV. I waste my time watching a football match for 2 hours fed by commercials, a nonsensce excitement and maybe grief after the match, I waste my time to watch that comic series in beg for a laughter in 60 minutes. I waste my time watching a censored film God damn it!

And all for what?

So here's my rule, my plan: Never Watch TV! Whatever it's showing, how hot the match is or how important the news (lies) are, how rare the late night weekend film is. Instead, if I feel very tempted to watch it, ok I'll give it my finger and I'll take a book and start to read. I'll read a book and I won't waste that 2 hours anymore. That's it. That's better now.


3 comments:

Gog said...

It's a good plan, but please make sure that you don't miss films like 'Camera Buff' or some other that could be shown on TV.
I don't watch TV very often, but during many years, I've been coping films from the TV with a VHS videorecorder, in order to wacht them later. It was almost the only way to avoid advertising, and the best way to see the most interesting films. I got to record great B/W classics at 5 a.m.

H.B. said...

Good Luck with the new Plan.
I just tried the same plan when I was a university student. it works fine for the first week. you know the same feeling about watching TV returns in another way. the most long time that I don't watch TV was near a month.
I hope you can set a record longer.
Anyway try Radio or music instead.

The Monkey In The Corner said...

Gog, it doesn't fit my case because all movies shown in TV here are cut! So I prefer to watch the rarities as I find them myself rather than watching them in TV.

H.B, what do you mean it returns in another way?