TV rots the Brain.

There is a hand full of people who have listened to the Ska Band I was in during my high school career. We were called ThreeXr, or 3XR, which stood for Three Times the Refreshment. Well, we had a ska song that was titled ‘TV rots the Brain’. Lyrically it was about watching TV and being a bum, and instead of being useless you should get up and live for Christ. (Oh yeah our ska band was a Christian Ska Band) But I was analyzing how much do I use the TV. I say ‘using’ because sometimes I don’t watch television, I watch my netflix movies, or play video games, but I need the TV to do so. I clocked in about 4 hours a day (mostly watching 24 on DVD). Averaging 24 hours a week. That’s insane!!! One entire day wasted in a vegetated state. So I’ve come up with a plan to help me stay away from the tube.

What incentive to we get for watching TV? We usually pay for cable, and in exchange we get commercials to buy products we usually don’t need. When watching late night television around 2am I love to see the Dating commercials for Live Links or some other calling service. It’s funny!!! A good friend of mine Jen Reyes and I joke about some of the cheesy lines given on those commercials. “I’m glad you called, I’m feeling the chemistry.” That’s just one line, many more. Well my point is we don’t get anything for watching TV. Absolutely nothing. Well I’m starting a reward program for TV. Reading in exchange for television viewing. I’m not sure how the rules will be, but this is just an idea for myself. It’s calculated like this in simple terms. 50 pages of reading equals 30 minutes of TV time. (anything goes for tv time, video games, TV show, or 30 minutes of a movie). 100 pages of reading equals a full length DVD. Hopefully I’ll be able to read more, be adaptive to words and have the knowledge of whatever it is I want to learn about.

I’m also going to start a reward program for exercising. But that involves money. Still working on the formula, but all I know is it will give me an incentive to work out.