CONFESSIONS OF A TV ADDICT
A recent question on quora cracked me up… I have lost all
will to study anymore. All I do is watch TV series and movies day long. Someone
give me a solution for this I laughed hard and took a look around myself. The
books I had brought from the library were way past the due date but hardly
over, there were at least 5 articles I had started to write and not done. The 7th
episode of a popular TV show running on my laptop. I had intended to watch just
one. holidays are usually the most worthless times of any students life. You
plan hard to make it productive and after the first few days you are just like
nah it’s a waste of time and sink in to mind numbing movies and serials. it’s
not until your broadband modem finally gives
up that you stop and look back at all those dead hours and corpses of unread books.
My love for TV serials began with star world. They started to air American sitcoms and I
sat down to watch several afternoons ago and it still goes on. I playfully chide on my mother for watching
her silly saas bahu serials while I broke my head figuring out who the mother was
or would Ross and Rachel get together ever. I grew out of TV very soon. I hated waiting a week for the next episode
while the original telecast in US was 6 months ago and also it was becoming a
headache to frequently switch channels whenever someone sweared or mentioned
sex. Broadband connection at my home was still in its nascent stages. I hadn’t figured out how torrents worked as
yet. But once I did there was no
stopping me. Until then I had not once crossed my band width limit but now my
band width lasted me a few hours as I downloaded every latest serial and
stocked up like a squirrel stocks nuts for winter, a very slow network one.
That is not even the hardest part. The hardest part is
choosing to delete the serials when my chunky laptop cries out for the lack of
disk space. While most kids my age want cool gadgets and clothes I want a
faster internet connection. I don’t complain about how these TV serials
have better story lines than Indian movies but they do. My game of thrones
community would collectively share my hatred towards Geoffrey and George R.R.
martin for killing all our favorite characters. I later read somewhere that
killing off characters reels in the audience and increases curiosity to watch
further. Well played martin! With
Mitchell and Cameron (modern family), I learnt love does come in all sizes and
forms. I am proudly not a homophobic (I am pretty sure there is word for that)
in this country were celebrating Valentines Day with a member of the opposite
sex is frowned upon. . A person who
cooks meth can have a story and that not all stories have a happy ending
(p.s. shonda rhimes is surely rotting in
hell for killing of Derek). Cross country adoption, surrogacy, and sperm donors
were all words until these TV serials put them in to pictures for me. Is this
all learning? I can see you frowning, the strange uncle who is reading my post.
But I am more accepting of all life styles and people and for that I am
grateful to these TV shows.
although It would do
me and my parents a lot of good if I pulled my head out
of the laptop and did something more useful and that is why I decided to put
this in a blog that no one reads.
P.S I aspire to be a
screenwriter someday and from my blog I can see my future is pretty bleak
