I want to change my life.
This will be a multi-faceted approach that hasn't been completely defined yet. I have made my first decision as to what I will change first. I've decided that the first step in this process, Day 1, will be removing television from my daily life. I have thought about this for years, but didn't have agreement within the house. Maybe I used that as a subconscious reason to keep watching... but now, I, on my own, will cut T.V. out. I don't watch too much, comparatively speaking, but it's enough that I believe I will discover new and amazing things by eliminating it. I've recently become somewhat of a documentary and movie junky (What Would Jesus Buy, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Beautiful Truth, The Gerson Miracle , The Future of Food, Frida, Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup, I am Sam and more) now that I can watch Netflix on the Wii. This will be the hardest part. This is why I've decided that I will allow myself one movie a week for now. Not sure what day of the week... probably Friday night.
I'm curious, nervous and excited to see what the impact that this first step will have on my life. I will post daily on the progress.
I wish you luck with this new endeavor. I am sad because you have never seen Modern Family and it is hilarious! But, I will be as supportive as possible to you, my friend (Starting now). However, you know that I LOVE sitcoms and they are making a strong comeback. I am very interested to see your daily progress. How did today go?
ReplyDeleteI don't think there's anything wrong with watching if you really get entertainment and have no guilt associated with it. I only watched political news shows which have become really old to me and movies. I also experienced guilt for whatever reason. I don't know why some of us can watch TV and enjoy it guilt free and why some of us feel like we need to be accomplishing something all of the time! Maybe the latter of the two has some sort of sickness! :) Thanks for writing and for reading!
ReplyDeleteWell, I never said I don't feel guilt. I learned how to alleviate the guilt. I tape the sitcoms I want to watch and then watch them when I am eating lunch or at the end of my day. The guilt comes when something is on TV that I would like to watch, but I have other things I need to do. If I am "done" (I put it in quotes because we are never truly done) with my chores/tasks for the day and it is just in time for some prime time TV - that's great! I will sit on my couch and watch guilt-free, and then go to bed. That is pretty rare though. I usually am not really done until about 9:30ish. So now I jump in the shower or do some laundry or whatever until 10 (when the shows I want to watch are done taping) and then I watch a show or two. No guilt. It's pretty great. A DVR would make this task easier, quicker, and give me even more downtime, but I would have to upgrade my cable which creates the potential for guilt because so many more viewing options would be readily available to me. I'm only so strong.
ReplyDeletehaha... you are hysterical. I'm not going to respond here. I think our recent discussion (just now on the phone) has given me much food for thought for today's blog post!
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