Last year nobody in my host family watched TV, except for
one time my sister watched a special on African Cats. One time I tried to show
them Germany’s most popular show, The Big Bang Theory. Who doesn’t love Sheldon
arguing with you in German? Nobody, that’s who. Well, except for my host
family. It was after that when I realized how big a part of my life television
was. I guess I was too addicted to the stories of the shows I watched to ever
stop watching them but it did make me start thinking about how time I wasted
while watching it. This year, now that I get home later and have much more
homework, TV as a part of my daily life has sort of faded away. Now, watching
TV has become a privilege for me rather than a time filler.
As much as everyone hates TV, I appreciate the essence of
it. Not the shows about pregnant 16 year olds or housewives that want to kill
each other but the pure form of entertainment that it is. Everything in
moderation. TV is a wonderful way to sit back and relax but it shouldn’t be something
that people watch for hours on end everyday. I know that it has to be balanced
and not over the top. There is a clip of a woman on Wife Swap that was infamous
in Germany, she said that TV was good for her husband and children because it
taught them things like how to raise children and how to cook. This is what is
wrong with TV nowadays. It is no longer a form of entertainment for most
people. It is a lifestyle. This is what has to change, if TV wasn’t a way to
cater to laziness and boredom and for few to make millions it wouldn’t be as
abhorred today as it is.
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