The Story of the Glowing Box

I watched a great TV show recently 'Suits'. I liked it so much so that I started searching for another great show after I was done watching this. I have a past of watching a lot of movies and tv shows that I gave up watching when I started 'living' and here I was again searching for more shows to watch. I have watched 'Heroes', 'Lost', 'Prison Break' and many other great shows that took up my evenings and night and kept me away from an aware living. It de-stresses you for sure because it keeps you from making any tough choices or keeps you from doing any work at all. I had learned this the last time well enough to stop watching all together. Then I started watching some movies recently and again I was back to TV shows. The past two weeks I spent searching for the next big thing in TV that can possibly suck up more evenings from my life. I tried a lot of them actually. I saw a lot of pilots. I watched 'Revolution', 'The Newsroom', 'Continuum', 'Breaking Bad' and all the other top rated shows on the websites. I don't understand the obsession with drugs, people are so obsessed that all the top rated shows are based on drug addiction. 

After all this, I am glad I am back to senses and last night with the help of these continuous non-sense shows and my own inner calling I finally gave up. I am not going to give up completely but I'm going to be very selective about it. I do a lot of calculations to back up my analysis and I did a preliminary one for my TV/movies watching do. What I found was I have watched over 4500 hours of it that I can remember and count and countless more. Assuming watching 12 hours a day leaves us with nothing much to achieve that day, this adds up to about an year of my life. A year that I could have spent reading a book, even writing a book, building a website, learning a skill, getting in shape and what not. I am 26 years old and whatever I am I could have been well before when I was 25. Though I am glad I did this analysis and hope that I won't have spent more years in front of the glowing box when I'm 50 and I do this calculation again.