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Date Posted: 23:14:07 07/17/02 Wed
Author: Jonathan
Subject: Re: life outside the box
In reply to: june 's message, "life outside the box" on 19:25:57 07/17/02 Wed

Thanks for the support, I feel the same way, like I'm some kind of weird person because I don't watch T.V. But I wouldn't change. The last couple times I've visited my parents I sort of flattered my Mom because I said a couple things about how I don't like T.V. and how I'm glad I've stopped watching it. Even as a kid I didn't watch much, until I was about 4 my entire family watched one show per week on a black and white set, (I have a theory that black and white isn't as bad, because it reminds people that what they're seeing isn't reality -just a young theory) then we gradually watched a little more and I guess when I was maybe 8 or 9 we got a color set. It's mostly because my Mom doesn't seem to like T.V, I don't know what her specific objection is with it, I guess probably just the whole turning your brain to mush thing in general, she doesn't seem to like video games much either. I swear I'm a much different person than I would be because of watching less T.V. as a kid. I was happy to see that my parents retired their old set, and replaced it with one a good deal smaller.

My family does things like reading and playing card games a lot. Actually we rent movies a good deal too, maybe that's my fault -my Dad will say something like "let's see what's on the poop tube," and I'll say something like "probably poop" and suggest that we rent a movie instead, so that's often what happens.




>thanks for your response!
>
>it truly is a comfort to me. i have long been with my
>back against the wall over this issue. i have a
>family, and i'm the only one not trapped in the box.
>i have been alone, in this, for years and years. now,
>as you pointed out, there are four!! (actually, it
>was ron that i unintentionally left out, at first,
>because i hadn't quite noticed his conversation until
>after i put in my two-cents worth.)
>
>i will come clean here and admit that i have, on
>occasion, indulged in a movie or a show, but to me, it
>is what i
>m-i-g-h-t do--a couple of times a year, not what i
>do--hour after hour--week after week. it is not
>uncommon for me to resent t.v., for the time it sucks
>out of my life (yes, 2nd hand t.v.! we should sue for
>damages! haha!) yet, i don't feel honor bound to
>complete abstinence, either.
>
>i feel myself wondering if the words stephanie, ron,
>or you have written here, were actually copied from
>something i've written or said, somewhere, in the
>past. i worry about the effect of movies and video
>games on the people i have to share the world with. i
>have a lot of "better things" to do, and yet, i often
>find myself feeling immobilized by the fact that my
>family has, yet again, been vacuumed back into the
>box. i have this urge to play rescuer. i recognize,
>that turning my back on it and d-o-i-n-g something
>with my family, anything that is better (which
>includes almost everything), and for them it must be
>more fun, is really the way to lead them out of
>despair.
>
>i began living life mostly outside of the box at about
>age 19. i'm now 43. it began with a sort of: "cold
>turkey" quit, then plucking additional periods of
>wasted time out of my life was more gradual. there
>have been periodic visits back to the box (more than
>just an educational afternoon or an evening
>documentary) that were punctuated with severe
>depression or sadness for having sunk so low as to let
>t.v. steal so many of my potential "moments" in life.
>
>the fact that there is a stephanie, jonathan, and a
>ron, in the world makes me feel empowered!!! i don't
>have to feel like i must either join in the insanity
>or stay in a separate world, all by myself. thanks
>for being there. this is just what i was looking for!

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