Many years ago as snot nosed kid, my friends and I used to spend many hours finding things to amuse ourselves with. Most of them occurred outside and most of them ended up with us looking much dirtier than we were when we started. As I grew older the things I found fun became a little more sophisticated and in many cases a little more expensive. Then came the interesting time when my attention was pretty much focused on one thing (I am sure I don't need to go into detail, I will credit you with enough imagination to figure out what I am referring too).
However, the worrying aspect of all this is that in the years since hitting my 30's I seem to have transformed into the one thing I vowed never to become - the dreaded "Couch Potato".
Now I know I am not as bad as many, but I am sure I am worse than some. I do exercise on a fairly regular basis and during the summer I spend a fair amount of time on yard work. But the realization hit me when a couple of days ago I found myself flicking through the TV Guide and making mental notes of some of the new series that are coming for the summer season and thinking that I would have to make sure to be planted in front of the TV at the appropriate times. I have become a victim of the so called "appointment television". Chunks of my evenings for the next 12 weeks or so will be set aside for mindless entertainment. Heaven forbid I should think to maybe pick up a book or magazine and as for actually concocting some form of entertainment from scratch, forget that !
Life has become far to easy, leisure far too convenient. My brain is slowly shrinking to the size of a pea and I am sure that the forces of evolution will eventually dictate that we will all be born with a TV remote in place of a hand. I should make the effort to do something about this before I am to far down the slippery slope to recover.
but then……..
what the hell do I know.
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