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The Benefits of Not Having TV
A few days ago, my parents came to visit my place. When they looked around the house, my father asked me with his worried voice if I don't get bored because I don't have TV.
I used to like watching MTV, comedy shows, dramas, etc. But after I started to studying 7 AM to 11 PM at the high school automatically I got far away from the TV haha.
When I think of the disadvantages of not watching the TV, sometimes I don't get the topics of conversation with my friends. It's not really inconvenient but obviously, I get bored or can't have fun with the conversation if I can't understand what are they saying. But these days, there are a lot of new friends who are able to have conversations on wide topics besides TV (for example, Steemit, crypto...), so I don't feel that I need to watch TV.
Of course, there is disadvantages from not watching TV, but actually there are a lot more advantages than you think.
Less waste time
Sometimes I go to my parents' house on the weekend, and every time I sit down on the couch and start to watching TV, two or three hours go by really fast! When I staring at the TV without any thoughts I start to think, "why am I keep watching this even if I'm not even enjoying it", but meantime I can't stop watching it lol. One of the reasons why drugs are dangerous is because of addiction. It's scary because this is one of kind of addiction that most of the people are addicted.
If you don't have TV at home you can do a lot of things more than you thought. The reason I can cook at home more often, and taking pictures when I'm cooking is that I don't waste time on TV. Besides blogging every day, and also just by reading the high-quality information on Steemit I could spend my time on investing myself.
Less stress
I used to think that watching television is a way to relieve my stress. But since I don't watch the TV anymore, watching TV makes me more stressed. For example, celebrities on TV show seem pretty, handsome, they have perfect skin and body. It makes me starts to think I should be like them. I feel like I'm not normal because I don't look like them. This is an especially big problem for young people who are growing up because it can also cause health and mental problems.
I could focus on how I can be healthier than care about how I look, after got away from the TV.
More opportunities to access quality content
Since I don't have TV, I'm looking for contents every time when I need. Recently I have been interested in documentary and I have watched when I have free time! The word of documentary itself may sound boring and not very fun, and that is what exactly I was thinking! By the way, I was able to change the stereotype by watching the documentary called Blackfish. If you are new to the documentary, I strongly recommend Blackfish and Citizen Four! Watching documentaries helped me a lot to get my widen perspective.
In addition to this, famous documentaries such as Blackfish and Citizen Four can easily find subtitles, but other documentaries it's really difficult to find English subtitles as well as Korean subtitles. It is much harder to understand without subtitles, but the process has become language study. Killing two birds with one stone ;)
Increasing conversations with people
When my parents came to see me a few days ago, I felt that we're having the real conversation! If it was my parents' house, we would have been watching TV without talking to each other all day, but we played music, and talk on various topics, and we played card game :) It was really fun!
It wasn't easy to realize the bad effects that TV can give me before not having TV. But now there are countless numbers of good things!
I wish you can also have a look at how much you are addicted to TV :)
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