For the Love of Television. It's not Evil, It's an Escape. Part 1
'Whether or not you're aware of it or not, you're taking the information you get from watching tv and putting it in your brain." - Stephanie Beatriz, AskMen Interview, March 2014 I have heard - more times than I would have actually thought possible - people say that they don't watch tv. Given reasons range from they don't have time to they have better things to do with their time. And to those people, I say 'Hey that is so great for you.' And I mean that. But me. Well, I adore television. Since childhood, it has offered a different type of escape than music and books. With music, it is more like therapy. It makes me think about what is going on in my life and how I should be dealing with it. With books, it is an escape from my reality, but one that requires concentration and thinking. With television, I get the benefit of watching the drama play out but not having it become my problem or something I have to fix or physically get involved with. I d...