No applause please. It wasn’t like I went from the typical 3 – 4 hour per day average to zero all at once. I had been steadily losing interest in it while growing more and more tired of the commercials for a long time.
If anyone were to ask me how I did it, I guess that’s the answer. Get tired of it. Ask yourself if you really like what you are watching and failing that, watch less and do other stuff.
As to why I have no plans to return to the tube I like what being without it has done for my mind and soul. I also like the extra time and constructive things I’m doing that filled the vacuum created by less TV.
I read a lot more. And “reading more” is something I’ve been saying I want to do most of my life. There’s more time where I’m actually tuned into what is going on with my family. I taste the food I eat now that I’m not washing it down with cable news.
One thing that occured to me once I had already began my TV fast is that all the news and other information (think conditioning) that is piped at me when they aren’t showing commercials can be intended for little else other than making me stay in front of the TV and watch the commercials.
The same people who decide what is important enough to transmit into your brain also want you to buy the “male enhancement” pills, the antidepressants, the viagra. Then the beer, candy, fast food, junk food, soda – and oh yeah, the weight loss and exercise stuff.
I’m just done with it.
