I love television. I love everything about it. I love that episodes are at most an hour long, I love that the length of a season allows for more character development than in a film, I love that the writing and the acting are just as good as film...I think that the current offering of television dramas and comedies far outshines the crap we have in the box office these days. And of course, I have my favorite shows - Alias, 30 Rock, the Office, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Supernatural, Gossip Girl, Buffy...the list goes on.
Not only do I have a love for television, I also have somewhat of an obsession. Rare is the day when I don't go online to view an episode of my current show (which is six feet under, btw). Rare also is the day when I do not obsessively discuss details of some television show with an unwitting or unwilling victim. And rarest of all is the day I do not plop myself down in front of my television set and mindlessly watch something I don't even like when I should be doing homework.
This relationship that television and I have is supremely unhealthy. My happiness practically depends on the availability of the latest episode of the Office, I can't have a social life on Thursdays because the lineup is too good to miss. I know that I'm an addict - I know this, and yet I cannot get myself to quit. I've tried to go cold turkey, and I thought perhaps the strike would teach me to live without television, but no! I only grew more desperate for serial plotlines and awkward humor.
Alas, I fear that I will never break the spell that the television industry has so carefully and tightly woven about me. My case is a hopeless one - rather than have a life I shall rot in front of my tv, slowly dying of a vitamin D deficiency.
1 comment:
You make me laugh, and I love you for that :)
I think that as long as you're getting stuff done, that it's not really an issue that you're a TV addict. It's WAY better than being a pot head, or a smoker, or an alcoholic...
Be thankful that your addiction only eats up your time, and not parts of your body.
<3
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