No TV- Are You With Us?
February 24, 2008 by laura
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Television is a big energy sucker, and a really really big time waster. I don’t spend a tremendous amount of time watching television, but occasionally I can get sucked in. When that happens, I lose all sense of time… and I almost always feel terrible afterwards.
Char over at Weary Parent, had a super idea to go tv free for an entire week, and will be making her family do the same. I have decided to follow along. I don’t think it will be too difficult, I have lots to do without having a distraction like that around. My challenge, is to get other people around me to do the same thing. This will be especially hard, considering tonight is the Oscars (the biggest television event of the year). We can miss one awards show, right? The winners will be listed in the paper tomorrow, and People magazine will show what everyone was wearing in a week or two. Besides, did you see any of the movies that are up for awards?
Anyway, I am up for the challenge. Would love it if you all would join in with me. Think about all of the energy we will be saving (both personally and globally). Who’s with us?
**Picture Source - flickr
OK - I have a big question for all of you: What do you do when you are too sick to do anything?
TV, blogs, magazines, radio, podcasts have been my mainstays, but I know that most of those drain me and rot my brain (except individual blogs (it’s the volume I’ve got on my feeder that’s the problem) and podcasts). Except if you don’t have the energy to even lift a pair of knitting needles, what’s a person to do with their “waiting to become unconscious again” time? The worst part is, the longer I watch tv the harder it is to think of what else to do - and then the greater likelihood that eyestrain and commercial noise are about to pull me under.
I don’t know about the rest of you. But television actually makes me feel worse. If there is a movie I want to see - then I make time for it.
But regular random television- hurts my brain. Same with listening to the radio, when I am at work. Having to listen to someone else’s radio station when I am trying to concentrate annoys me greatly. It just turns into noise-and exhaustion sets in.
totally agree. i hate tv. i may watch a moviie every now and then- but i hate the noise. i was never like this before i got fibro and c.f…..
Edwina, I too have a really hard time with television. For a long time I thought it was the pace, but I think you might be onto something - its that noise.
However, as long as I am in control - I seem to do ok. So television that is put on dvd, I seem to be ok with. Although I watch it like a movie, so that may be why.
I spent a few years without a television before my onset of CFS- so perhaps that is why it makes me so crazy.
Thanks for using my picture and giving me the credits!
All the best.
Merlijn Hoek
Photographer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/merlijnhoek/