If you are a non willing SAHM and do not really like the work other SAHMs do, then you know how it is. You send the children and spouse after feeding them some breakfast. You send the maid after she cleans the house and kitchen and utensils. Now you have the whole day and whole house to yourself.
You sit in front of the TV thinking you will relax for a while. You switch to channel 10. And of course there is cookery show going on. They won't stop airing it just because you detest it. And your favorite soap will not start for another forty five minutes. The soap which is good and whose episodes you have already watched in youtube. So you change to channel 31, then 32 and then 33. This movie is chor police kind of stuff. You are not in a mood for this. And this other one is Harry Potter. Voldemort himself would have run away if he had to watch these million times. And this last one is a romantic comedy but haven't you seen it already? 50 times?
You switch to a comedy channel. But this show, you should have seen when you are 4, not 47. Because that is when this show is made. OK, how about 49? They are showing some funny videos. But you do not find anything funny in children and toddlers falling and getting hurt. What if they are hurt badly? What if they have a fracture? How ill they go to school? How will they play?
OK, you decide to completely leave these phoreen channels and switch to 61. But look at the families in which there are some 100 people. Big naani, small naani, big maji, small maji, and you know how it goes. And what about their dresses and jewels. How can any one be so decked up inside the house? Jai shree krishna. You can not put up with that.
By now, you are angry. Very angry with yourself and your life and all the TV channels and your spouse. Why are you angry with your spouse? Because every weekend instead of taking you out for aromantic dinner window shopping at some big mall, he just watches TV and he seems to enjoy it.
So you get up andswitch of the $%** little thing and walk away bring some cookies from the kitchen and switch on some movie and wait for it to be over so that next one will be good.
OK, this was introduction. This is what happens most of the time. But what can you do instead is
a) switch on some science channel so that you can get some useful stuff out of it. If not at least you will fall asleep which is also good. b) Never start watching a movie, no matter how good it is. Because movies will not be over in 30 minutes and after watching it for 3 hours, your self loathing would increase so much that you do not want to do anything. c) Switch to desi channels, because their soaps will not revolve around love lives of people, their cookery shows will have items which you can really make, and their reality shows are some what good, except for few exceptions. And most importantly as you can understand them completely, you will lose interest in them and will not get addicted to them. d) What ever you are watching, during commercials do not switch channels. Instead think of craft you are thinking of doing, or some code or blog you are going to write etc. e) Never think of TV as a sleeping pill, it will never be. Or as a relaxing equipment, it rarely is. I know this is contradictory to a. But both a and e are true. f) Do not start with TV in the morning. Morning is for some work. Anyway by after noon you will be tired and would not be able to read or code or whatever else you are supposed to do.
And most important, you should not feel guilty. OK, you are not doing anything useful. But do you want to add the misery of guilt to that. May be you are not feeling good. So you want to forget your worries. That is why you are watching TV. It is not a sin to forget your worries for some time and enjoy yourself. Enjoy whatever you are watching. May be once you are happy, you will be more inclined get up and start doing some other work.
Use TV as a dessert, not as a meals.
You sit in front of the TV thinking you will relax for a while. You switch to channel 10. And of course there is cookery show going on. They won't stop airing it just because you detest it. And your favorite soap will not start for another forty five minutes. The soap which is good and whose episodes you have already watched in youtube. So you change to channel 31, then 32 and then 33. This movie is chor police kind of stuff. You are not in a mood for this. And this other one is Harry Potter. Voldemort himself would have run away if he had to watch these million times. And this last one is a romantic comedy but haven't you seen it already? 50 times?
You switch to a comedy channel. But this show, you should have seen when you are 4, not 47. Because that is when this show is made. OK, how about 49? They are showing some funny videos. But you do not find anything funny in children and toddlers falling and getting hurt. What if they are hurt badly? What if they have a fracture? How ill they go to school? How will they play?
OK, you decide to completely leave these phoreen channels and switch to 61. But look at the families in which there are some 100 people. Big naani, small naani, big maji, small maji, and you know how it goes. And what about their dresses and jewels. How can any one be so decked up inside the house? Jai shree krishna. You can not put up with that.
By now, you are angry. Very angry with yourself and your life and all the TV channels and your spouse. Why are you angry with your spouse? Because every weekend instead of taking you out for a
So you get up and
OK, this was introduction. This is what happens most of the time. But what can you do instead is
a) switch on some science channel so that you can get some useful stuff out of it. If not at least you will fall asleep which is also good. b) Never start watching a movie, no matter how good it is. Because movies will not be over in 30 minutes and after watching it for 3 hours, your self loathing would increase so much that you do not want to do anything. c) Switch to desi channels, because their soaps will not revolve around love lives of people, their cookery shows will have items which you can really make, and their reality shows are some what good, except for few exceptions. And most importantly as you can understand them completely, you will lose interest in them and will not get addicted to them. d) What ever you are watching, during commercials do not switch channels. Instead think of craft you are thinking of doing, or some code or blog you are going to write etc. e) Never think of TV as a sleeping pill, it will never be. Or as a relaxing equipment, it rarely is. I know this is contradictory to a. But both a and e are true. f) Do not start with TV in the morning. Morning is for some work. Anyway by after noon you will be tired and would not be able to read or code or whatever else you are supposed to do.
And most important, you should not feel guilty. OK, you are not doing anything useful. But do you want to add the misery of guilt to that. May be you are not feeling good. So you want to forget your worries. That is why you are watching TV. It is not a sin to forget your worries for some time and enjoy yourself. Enjoy whatever you are watching. May be once you are happy, you will be more inclined get up and start doing some other work.
Use TV as a dessert, not as a meals.
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