For a fitter you: The term couch potato wasn’t coined for nothing. The temptation to stuff your face — preferably with super fattening junk food — is irresistible when you remain passively seated in front of that idiot box. And even if you snack healthy during TV time or don’t eat at all, it’s still time spent passively, more susceptible to lead to a chubbier, chunkier you.
Hobbies (re)discovered: Even if you watch about 3-4 soaps, sitcoms, reality shows and/or “news” bulletins a day, it’s about 2-3 hours down the drain. Imagine how great it would be to put all that time to good use... getting back to a hobby you loved during your younger years or taking up a whole new one. Be it classical dance, pottery, painting, collecting stuff or good ol’ reading. Talk about gaining precious me-time.
To stay sane: Most of the stuff on TV today is — to put it in mild terms — plain balderdash. “News” is sensationalised, reality shows are senseless, soaps are unbelievably dramatic and so many sitcoms are more tragedy than comedy.
Better relationships: How many of us are guilty of referring to TV characters by their screen names and discussing the ups and downs of their painstakingly scripted personal lives with our close ones? And in the bargain, do we end up talking to the real people in our life about real issues that could be bothering them, or simply share something as banal as your (and their) day? The moot question — do you share your life to your family/roommates/partner during dinner or leave the TV on and stare at it like zombies?
Hobbies (re)discovered: Even if you watch about 3-4 soaps, sitcoms, reality shows and/or “news” bulletins a day, it’s about 2-3 hours down the drain. Imagine how great it would be to put all that time to good use... getting back to a hobby you loved during your younger years or taking up a whole new one. Be it classical dance, pottery, painting, collecting stuff or good ol’ reading. Talk about gaining precious me-time.
To stay sane: Most of the stuff on TV today is — to put it in mild terms — plain balderdash. “News” is sensationalised, reality shows are senseless, soaps are unbelievably dramatic and so many sitcoms are more tragedy than comedy.
Better relationships: How many of us are guilty of referring to TV characters by their screen names and discussing the ups and downs of their painstakingly scripted personal lives with our close ones? And in the bargain, do we end up talking to the real people in our life about real issues that could be bothering them, or simply share something as banal as your (and their) day? The moot question — do you share your life to your family/roommates/partner during dinner or leave the TV on and stare at it like zombies?
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