I just finished watching a film called Remote Control about Children, Media, and the American Family of Today. Although most of the information wasn't completely new some of the things still shocked me. The fact that by the time children today are 30 they will have spent 10 years of that watching TV is really sad. Especially since I know I myself have a TV/Movie issue. I admit I like have a movie on a lot when I do stuff because it feels like I am with people rather than alone but too often I rely on this false idea of social interaction. I am now treating my TV/Movie watching as an addiction, one that I know will be hard to crack because I often just crave social time not TV time and after so many years of substituting TV for real people it is just habit to put in a movie. I feel lucky though because I do believe that as a child I did know when enough was enough so the right base is still ingrained within me I just have to go back and reprogram where ever I went off track. I broke my addiction with Facebook three years ago now I must tackle the TV and Food. I just hope I am up to the struggle, because it will be one but in the end hopefully I will have a healthier life.....
....Lord help me.
Why watch life when it's right there for you to live it?
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