disclaimer: i have wanted to live a tv free life for at least the last 20 years. i'll probably never get my wish, but i can dream......................
this post is about that & the way the world is now a days with all this "connectiveness"
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detached.........but connected.
facebook, twitter, instagram
likes, comments, followers, friends?
television, netflix, cable, 24 hour news, talking heads
watching people do stuff and go places instead of doing or going
watching fiction, fantasy, recreations, crime dramas.......aliens, bigfoots, monsters........
ignoring your kids, families, friends, strangers, obligations
to stare at a screen.....
a black box on the wall
table
in your hand
on your lap
no conversations
just the tapped out words on a screen
or
the endless blabbing on
mute the life in the box, but don't turn it off
screen relationships are easier. you can walk away when you tire of it. don't have to invest too much of yourself.
to know more about what's going on in the world
than you do about the people right in front of you
to seemingly care more about what a stranger on a screen has to say than what the person
right there with you has to say.
it's a shame........................
tune out.......................turn off...............................LOOK UP!!!!!!
set a timer
have a life
i'm really hoping that there is no television in Heaven.
i fantasize daily about bashing the television to bits with a baseball bat....................................
I've been the same way through the years....I can remember at times, locking our tv up in closet for weeks/months at a time when the kids were really little.......now, of course, it's on the wall and way too big...but I think we have a pretty good balance on the tv.....other devices not so much....the kids like those tablets and phones way too much for me. However, I've tried to find the good in those too....lots of info right at your fingertips...especially helpful for unschooling/homeschooling......but there really does need to be a balance and sad to say, with that, we haven't found it yet.
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We haven't had a TV since 2006. And we don't miss it. I spend time on the computer...at home. We don't have a smart phone....just a flip phone with no internet access. So I guess we are just pretty much disconnected from the world. And we love it.
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