Ok, so if you have a really nice widescreen TV with High definition and so forth then don’t throw it away because it probably cost you a lot of money but if living at home or you have one in your dorm try for a sustained period of life without one and you’ll quickly notice the change in your life and the activities you start doing.
Apart from the Internet a TV is the most procrastination friendly item ever. Its very nature loves and feeds of procrastination. Often, especially if you have satellite of digital TV you’ll spend an extended amount of time simply flicking from channel to channel and eventually you’ll settle for something; a music channel, a random film etc. unaware that what you end up watching is only of marginal interest to you and not something you would have picked out of a TV guide or penciled into your daily diary to watch and thus if it isn’t really that important to you than you shouldn’t really be wasting your time watching it. This can have disastrous effects if you have work to do and for reasons like having a perfect set-up at home would prefer not to travel to the library to do it. Furthermore in the absence of a TV you’ll soon find that in times where you would have just sat down and watched TV that you are resorting to doing work or with the new extra time gained you read perhaps one more book on your reading list and this added little piece of information that you gained from reading that extra book may separate your essay or exam answer from the rest. Beyond that you may just take to reading a novel, doing a chore you would have postponed or pick up a new hobby.
The convention of a TV is more than just a procrastination aide though. If you move into a new apartment or dorm room and you are in the absence of a TV take note in how differently you coordinate your furniture and you’ll seen realize how a TV has dictated your furniture layout in the past. Additionally, think about when and why you use your TV. For example when people have friends come around the social gathering can usually just degenerate into watching TV or perhaps a film and thus for the most part people end up being silent for parts of the film meaning the social gathering turns out to actually not be that social at all. You can find that without a TV you can become more inventive with your social gatherings and with activities and that you and your friends have a much better time and come to more effectively know who each other are through conversation that may not have had happened before.
Not yet convinced? What are your reasons for keeping/getting rid of your television?
