"While watching TV, I don't think, I don't feel, my emotions and senses are numb."
I don't have a TV. No, not just not in my room. I don't have a TV in my house. And I love it. "How do you live?" people ask me. "Easily." I reply.
Over the years I grew to despise television. The exploited violence on the news, the canned laughter on the sitcoms, the two-dimensional characters on the dramas. All these began to bore me rather than entertain me.
Instead I read. I let my imagination paint pictures in my head. Battles, romances, intrigues, all come to life when I curl up with a book. Books reach me on an emotional level that a television cannot. I laughed at Tom Sawyer's antics. My heart raced when Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and d'Artagnan cried, "All for one and one for all!" I cried when Scarlett O'Hara flung herself at Rhett Butler's feet.
While watching TV, I don't think, I don't feel, my emotions and senses are numb. I prefer to live a more thoughtful, more fulfilling life which is why I'm proud not to own a television.
"Television . . . is a life-draining tool that takes over our brains and bodies."
While television is the gateway to seeing other things in our world, it is also a life-draining tool that takes over our brains and bodies. When people watch TV, they do not use their brains. The term "couch potato," which we all know very well, is a person who sits on the couch all day and eats junk food while watching TV.TV takes people away from going outside or doing any other physical activity. Television portrays certain stereotypes about people. The truth is if you've never met them, you may believe what you see on TV.
There is too much violence, sex, and drug use that is being shown on TV's in America on a regular basis. Some genius has made it possible for us to watch even more TV while we are driving in our vehicles. The driver has the luxury of keeping their eyes on the TV screen rather than on the road where they should be. The passengers can now enjoy even more television while on the road because they did not see enough of it while at home.
The truth about TV is that is takes us away from the true life that we crave and desire. We do not need to watch other people live their lives any more on the TV screen, instead we need to grab life by the horns and live everyday without a million viewers watching our every move.
"Television is the hairy rat by the dumpster chewing on my ham sandwich."
Television is the hairy rat by the dumpster chewing on my ham sandwich. It slowly gnaws at the food for the brain, the time for communication, and the nutrition of life-experience. Bit-by-bit TV becomes a substitution for the building blocks of knowledge; it becomes a replacement for books. Shocking surveys reveal that compared to the 3 million items checked out from public libraries daily, 6 million videos are rented each day in the U.S. It is almost unbelievable how children spend more time watching TV than they do in school.
Not only does TV deplete the academic achievement of students, but it is also the reason why parents know more about the "Average Joe" than about their average child. Communication within families is absorbed by television; compared to the 19 hours and 40 minutes American children spend watching TV per week, only 38.5 minutes of that week are spent on meaningful conversation between parents and their children.
For the average American, ten years of his/her life will be lost to TV. It is remarkable and horrific to think that at the age of eighty, before death, when one has realized that life is short, he will regrettably think of how he can never regain the ten years of living, breathing, and experiencing that he has lost to the television.
"Too much TV is not good for your eyes."
Watching too much TV is not good for you. First of all, too much TV is not good for your eyes. Your eyes will be really worn out after watching TV for a long time, and sometimes you will not have enough time to do homework too.
Or if you finished your homework, and it's very late, I bet you can't sleep well.
And there's other bad results. For example, when you're watching TV and doing homework, you can't concentrate. There won't be any physical activity, etc.