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Have you ever found that ‘there is nothing on TV’ ~ no matter how many channels you have access to? And even ‘while there is nothing on TV’, we seem to be compelled to watch it anyway... Ending up watching whatever it is that is not on...

Seems like an contradiction in terms?
Still it is something that happens often. Leaving us watching anything from daytime TV shows, soaps, documentaries, series... There is always a lot to choose from.

The real issue is that whatever programs are scheduled on any given channel at any given time are or are not interesting to us. When we find the program interesting, we might say that ‘there is something on TV’. When we don’t think the program is interesting, even though it is on ~ to us there is ‘nothing on’. Given that it works this way, I often wonder why we keep watching...

Do we really need a moving picture and a ‘flapping mouth’ in the background of our lives? Are we so afraid of the silence that we feel we are better off watching TV while there is ‘nothing on’ than we are not having the TV on?

Personally, I like the silence. I like to hear my on thoughts; that quiet voice that lets me know the things I need to know right at that moment ~ that little voice we call intuition...
It might be a good thing to take some time to ponder why we turn the TV on, even when there is nothing we really want to watch...

I know that there are people who have such an active mind that creating a diversion provides a point of rest. That, of course, can be a good reason to grab the remote no matter what kind of program is on...
Or is it because we are bored. We feel tired. Don’t feel like we have anything better to do.

Another part of it can be that as long as the TV is on and we are watching whatever is on ~ it will hold our attention. And as long as we are focussed on something, there is no need for us to figure out what potential we have, what we feel passionate about, what we want to get out of our lives ~ and how we can express these things.
In a sense TV is an easy way out. Because when we are done watching it, there is no time left to do something productive; something exciting; something that helps us express our unique potential.

Perhaps, the next time ‘there is nothing on TV’ we may experience a lot of fun discovering what it is we really want to be doing...
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