Tv, Oh Tv

Television is such a great thing. It provides limited education, communication, and enjoyment. However, like all things, it can be abused. Not really touching on the things that you can see on Tv, but the fact that it doesn’t do much for you. It’s alright to watch it, but the problem is that when you go without it, you sometimes realize just how much Tv takes of you and the little it gives back.

There is nothing wrong with a little entertainment. However, there is something wrong when you don’t realize how big the little entertainment takes in your life. When you never realize just how big an issue it is because it has been your companion since from birth.

The Tv can be a child’s best friend, a teenager's escape, and a pill for an adult's loneliness, in a word, it is the great escape without the actual escaping. By blocking all our senses, it never address the issues we face. The television is something that blocks feelings and lets us live for a little while, at the price of our time, someone else's life.

What this essentially means, is that problems are never solved and people remain broken. So as long the Tv is in people’s lives they cannot resolve their issues because the Tv pushes things down. It has the capability of suppressing issues that would have normally come to surface. Howbeit, due to the television being able to mask problems, they are never dealt with.

While that may seem melodramatic, it won’t necessarily affect someone on such a grand scale. However, it does affect us all in a little ways, more or less. With television, it can be said that it makes you plateau. It makes things comfortable, or make things bearable, which can be a good thing at times, and highly detrimental in other situations.

Nevertheless, if you needed to go somewhere or you have that feeling to travel, the problem is that it holds things back. It makes you just comfortable enough, but not comfortable enough that it fixes things. It makes it so you don’t really need to fix things. Like if you had a toothache,  television makes it bearable in the things of life, so you don’t attempt to fix them, because they are manageable, livable, and doable, but all the while it is still unpleasant.

Where as, if you didn’t have Tv, you might be able to push to your real dreams,because the feeling or issue is so forefront. The issues simply doesn't disappear, making you driven and able to accomplish that you wish. By not watching television, it is giving you more time and desire, because the television is not working as a filler for those real desires and dreams you have.

Tv is just like any tool humanity has made, it can either be a boon or a curse, just depending on how the user wields it. People rarely see when they have fallen into a trap, and if they do notice, they are sometimes not aware of they fell or how to get out. Watching television will not destroy your life. However, if your life is not working and you want to do things, maybe the television is something that is holding you back. It could all very well be taking your time, and making you be comfortable with just the ordinary; Helping you settle for watching people live their dreams instead of you living yours.