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 7^th 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