Tuesday, 24 February 2009

• Television and Internet

  I have decided that I do not need television or internet. It is quite funny actually how I came to this conclusion. While still in the decision process, I picked up a book. It was the autobiography of Sidney Poitier, called The Measure of a Man. Might as well do something with my time, since I don't have the TV to keep me entertained. After reading the first couple pages, I knew for sure that I didn't need TV. It was really quite unbelievable. In those pages he talks about an experience he had sitting in a hotel room watching TV. He had channels 1-97 and couldn't find a thing to watch. He had flipped through every one. Then without even thinking about it, he started to flip through all of them again as if something might have changed in the last 2 minutes. He thought to himself something along the lines of, "What am I doing? I could be doing something much better with my time than flipping through channels with nothing on them." I took it as a sign that I could also be doing more important things with my time. I mean, here I was already, reading a book, something I don't normally do. And it was really speaking to me, saying something important. I don't remember the last time TV really made me think or caught my attention. So was it coincidence? I think not.

   

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  P.S. - As for internet, using the computers at the Long Hill Township Library will suffice.

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