I had the television on while I was eating a few nights ago. After I was done eating, I kicked my foot up onto the table, laid back, and watched whatever worthless spectacle was on.
Seems innocent enough.
But for a split second, I was able to see myself as someone walking into my apartment would have. The sight freaked me out.
At first, it seemed all well and good to sit around and watch television after a long day of “working” and finishing a decent meal. But when I had my out-of-body experience, it was a completely different story.
I saw myself as some lazy lump that had nothing else going on with his life that sitting on a broken couch to watch television was a viable option for the rest of my night.
How many of you do this?
Does that seem like a complete waste of time to anyone else? To watch weird people on television play a role that you in some way covet. You want to be the guy that is a superhero and wears a mask. You want to be the lady who has a ton of money and a ton of shoes and nothing to do with her day. But instead of using your powerful, breathtakingly bulky brain to even attempt to figure out a way to liberate yourself from a boring desk job that you hate, you come home and watch TV until you’re too tired to think for yourself.
Everyone is good at something. Everyone has something in their life that they need to accomplish but for some reason never get around to finishing. I hope that the supersmart readers of my blog will change that.
Try this insane idea. Take 30 minutes each day this weekend (Friday after work, Saturday, and Sunday) and use this time to do that thing that you’ve really wanted to get around to doing but haven’t done.
If you think about it, 30 minutes is a drop in the bucket when you relate it to how much time there is in a day. Then consider how small 90 minutes is when you compare it with how many minutes you have in an entire weekend!
If you don’t read this on Friday, that’s not an excuse not to take 30 minutes sometime during the rest of this weekend and get something accomplished.
Here is what I will be doing. I will go through the thousands of pictures that I have taken and put on my computer. Once I do that, I will put all of my best shots into a couple of folders. Then I will finally put together some type of portfolio of my best pictures. For accountability, I will post a few of them to this blog Sunday night or Monday morning.
Post what you are going to accomplish with your weekend in the comments.
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awesome.
Nice post.
It’s funny when I first moved into my apartment we didn’t have cable for two weeks, so I found other means of keeping myself occupied. Now that I have cable, I don’t really use it. Mainly, I don’t find the time to actually use it. But when I do, I find myself not wanting to watch TV because I want to be doing other, meaningful things.
It’s ironic you mentioned organizing your photos this weekend. I plan on doing the same, but sending them to Walmart to get printed. I scrapbook my photos, something I have not been keeping up with in college and thought it was time to start it again. So I will probably spend much of my time doing that this weekend. (Aside from studying of course) Additionally, I need to organize and update my music/iPod. I want to create the “perfect” gym mix and start going again this weekend as well.
Good good! Glad to hear that at least one person I know is getting something worthwhile accomplished this weekend!
I’m home, on a Saturday night, and I will be reading the rest of the evening for my class on Tuesday. I figure my productivity level will be much higher if I have my nose in a book tonight for a couple hours instead of going out and getting wasted, which would entail my entire night being shot to hell, as well as all day tomorrow. It’s not TV, but along the same lines…just a waste of time and brain cells.
That’s cool. That makes two! Hopefully it’ll give you an easier load this week.
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BUT, what if you have been walking around Seoul all day, and you get home and there is a “Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares” marathon on TV?!?
Well, that’s the exception to the rule of course.