“4 weeks ago I stopped watching Netflix because it took me a lot of time each day.
Yesterday I had a bad day I wanted to relax and I said: “let’s just watch one episode”. I watched it. And after that episode I watched another one. And guess what, after that I felt like I could watch another one.
In that moment I remembered why I tried to quit this habit in the first place: me, trying to relax, to be joyful by being passive and watching others doing it in a TV show or in a movie or in a Youtube video.”
This is what I sketched 1 month ago (on 26th of April).
Today is 3rd of June. Two days ago I watched a full season o Silicon Valley. So much time passed and I am still unable to cut down this bad habit.
Sitting in bed or in sofa and watching a screen without is not a good deal for your brain. I see it like: your brain is like a muscle.
In the case of muscles if you don’t workout you would feel worse than in the case you would do some physical activity. And not only that, is not enough to do a hard workout at gym. After a workout you need a cool down such that your muscles won’t hurt latter.
And now, we can get back to your brain. During a day of work or study you work out your brain, but immediately after finishing the work out you just go home and don’t give your brain the time and the activities to cool down.
What is my problem with watching TV series?
A TV show is like a comfort zone, like an addiction. When things get hard and I am down, I would watch an entire season of something instead of talking with someone or going out. But I don’t solve any problems watching them. Moreover, my brain just gets lazy.
That is how I feel about TV series. Is not the fact of watching them, but the fact I rely on them. Like in the case of chocolate: when someone is sad, eating chocolate comforts the person (or am I the only person that does this? :))), but does not solve the problem. You don’t need to rely on TV series to have happiness or to comfort yourself.
I want to cut down this addiction in my case. I want to spend this time going out, doing photography, running, entertaining my brain, attending events, having a talk with someone.
I don’t want to see somebody doing this in TV show.
I want to be the main character in my life.
