Truly
we should live without guilt. So much so guilt has been a burden in
my life. I have long felt guilty for things others have done and
done to me. That's our culture guilt and self effacement as long as
we aren't genuine in it. If it is suspected society has gotten to you
and your modesty become too genuine people get angry for people
making them almost realize what we have collectively done. However
there was always enough there to tear us down rather than elevate
themselves and we were scolded for ever giving ourselves credit when
it is truly due.
Surviving
and doing it well requires a certain disregard for others or their
opinions at the very least. Often I suspect those willing to worry
about their own affairs more than the needs of others prosper more
superficially and society suffers the more for it. They themselves
still suffer largely from societal problems and largely for the
callousness that requires deadens them to the joys of love and life
they stop feeling and only feel acquisition and a more damn it
attitude towards pleasure.
We
don't get enough food regardless how much we eat. We don't have big
enough houses for all our possessions we don't use and oftentimes
even want and curios of guilt full of things bought by people who by
offering the gift proved they misunderstood our taste on a special
occasion that they were expected to give us more and resentment
creeps in but perhaps one doesn't notice it. With constant empty
stimulation people have no idea what their feelings are.
Think
what you could do in the time you spend watching TV. Lets start
smaller just one show replaced a day with playing an instrument for
a year. You wouldn't be brilliant but you would have gained a fair
sufficiency in the instrument and it would be more satisfying than to
listen to than a mp3. Think if you listened to instruments played by
you and your friends for music at gatherings and told stories with
your songs for entertainment for the majority of your life from then
on. Imagine if you wrote your observations from your life in a
journal to replace half hour show for a year. If you switched to non
fiction from novels think how many practical skills could be self
taught. What if books were judged by if they added to our life
instead of “it kept my interest.” Novels are fine but should
only be read if they are truly worth the effort in reading them. You
will never read everything wonderful in this world and some of us
drudge through a terribly written book because we started it. We
have lost the English language when we start judging books by if we
were happy that we finished it. “Best part was the end. I could
stop reading.” You are not a prisoner suffering cruel and unusual
punishment nor are you a high school student suffering cruel
unusually poor educational systems. If you are reading of your own
free will enjoy it that or just have an orgasm instead even if you
have to masturbate.
Think
what this constant non stimulation has done to us if the most
creative of us can not keep the interest of the most dull of us.
Rarely are we moved because stories are over dramatized rather than
told more eloquently in order to stimulate emotion from us and we
wish to feel but we leave a store and spite a homeless man for bread
that he may eat that day and tell him we just want to get home and
blame him for what he doesn't have and date online from profile
pictures because we feel so little love in our lives.
What
you don't have you wont have. You have to feel something to create
it and if you don't create it in your life it wont be in your life. I
am not talking about violence or hate received but emotions are our
responsibility. Some of us have neurological depression problems but
with discoveries of neuroplasticity even those who's mood centers are
decimated can still have hope of recovery with work. TV is the most
work avoidant thing I can think of even sleep you are upping
productivity once you awake again and are doing healing work. I find
it odd that dieticians have charts that depict how many calories are
burned watching TV. I will point out the interesting fact that
reading burns more calories than watching TV.
If
you can do nothing else for your health give up TV for a month and
read for that time or play an instrument. Keep a journal for a month
before starting and keep a journal for a month during. You can start
watching TV again in the future if you want but try again keeping a
journal for a month to depict your mental health and reread it.
That's the key the rereading. No news either if you cant read the
news you don't get news. Try finding a paper you like, something
that sounds intelligent and well written maybe even a paper from
different political views as well as your own. It balances ones
opinions and at the least makes us better able to argue our points.
