I am really annoyed with myself for not having studied enough over the past few years. I want to go back to a more balanced way of living. So I have come up with a decision that is quite radical to me: I will restrict my television viewer ship to a bare minimum. I will only watch television for news or for a really good reason ( and a fresh new episode of my favourite show doesn’t qualify as good reason). It is going to be very hard. I guess I will not even watch the Simpson’s, Spongebob Squarepants, Shinchan, or any of the tv shows I enjoy watching. It is going to be so hard. But I want to find if I get more satisfaction from studies and work. Anyway I used watch the shows I like only occasionally. Most of the time I used to pick up the remote to surf through channels and watch stuff I never liked. I used to be hypnotised by television. I was cognizant of the fact that most of programmes were utter trash but couldn’t bring myself to shut the idiot box. It was addictive. After the end of one show I kept going on to another, and another, and another. Finally, when I did switch off, I’d have a horrible empty feeling inside coupled with the guilt that I had wasted my time. Now I have decided to have a principle-centred approach to life.
The principle-centred approach is defined in one sentence as- “having everything in the appropriate quantity and avoiding anything in excess”.
Let’s see how it works out.
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