Gergely.Horvath.
TV
A habit? An escape? An addiction?
According to the statistics in the UK and US people are watching TV an average of 3-4 hours per day, every day.
If I only count up to 80 years, that's 10 years without sleeping, 87.600 hours in blue light from birth to death.
Adverts, news, weather, sport, shows, movies, episodes, repeat...
Is this how we are supposed to spend our time on Earth in our evenings till the end?
We all need escapes, no question about that. But it matters where we escape into and for how long for.
I stopped broadcast TV 15 years ago and stopped streaming from devices 5 years ago. I'm off the Blue Wheels now.
What can I report?
I've spent around 2000 evening hours on learning to play the guitar, then 2000 evening hours on creating, thinking, reading, learning and writing thanks to learning photography.
The next thousands of blue light free evenings will contain learning meditation, drawing a portrait, sculpting a bust, clarinet, trumpet, the list will go on as long my mind and body will go on.
I was born into TV culture and only by being away from it I've gained perspective and insight for myself that I wasn't just consuming TV - TV was consuming me and my time.
I feel extremely grateful that I have this pocket of time available to me just now, and for living in an era where most lessons/knowledge is free and available at my fingertips to grow and be more balanced in my life.
My evenings are containing silence, palpable joy and meaning personal to me now. TV is not designed to give me those, it's not in it's nature.
TV is designed only to give me the blues.
TV
A habit? An escape? An addiction?
According to the statistics in the UK and US people are watching TV an average of 3-4 hours per day, every day.
If I only count up to 80 years, that's 10 years without sleeping, 87.600 hours in blue light from birth to death.
Adverts, news, weather, sport, shows, movies, episodes, repeat...
Is this how we are supposed to spend our time on Earth in our evenings till the end?
We all need escapes, no question about that. But it matters where we escape into and for how long for.
I stopped broadcast TV 15 years ago and stopped streaming from devices 5 years ago. I'm off the Blue Wheels now.
What can I report?
I've spent around 2000 evening hours on learning to play the guitar, then 2000 evening hours on creating, thinking, reading, learning and writing thanks to learning photography.
The next thousands of blue light free evenings will contain learning meditation, drawing a portrait, sculpting a bust, clarinet, trumpet, the list will go on as long my mind and body will go on.
I was born into TV culture and only by being away from it I've gained perspective and insight for myself that I wasn't just consuming TV - TV was consuming me and my time.
I feel extremely grateful that I have this pocket of time available to me just now, and for living in an era where most lessons/knowledge is free and available at my fingertips to grow and be more balanced in my life.
My evenings are containing silence, palpable joy and meaning personal to me now. TV is not designed to give me those, it's not in it's nature.
TV is designed only to give me the blues.