Do you really prefer a fictional World to real Life?

Yesterday I started a list of reasons why I believe TV is one of the worst ways of passing your time that you can imagine. Today I would like to complete this list of reasons why you shouldn’t watch TV:

4. You are bombarded with Advertisement – and cannot fight against its Effect!

There are a whole lot of commercial breaks in a regular TV movie or TV show. You won’t get to see a complete half an hour of entertainment, news or other information: a few ad spots are definitely going to reach you and, depending on how well they are made, reach their goals as well! You just need to see the same thing often enough to know a brand for a product and trust it. Simply because you have heard of it so often. In the same way, commercials give you a subconscious message that you really need whatever they are showing. That can be electronic devices, food items or insurances, pretty much anything!

Fact is that it is effective. It is a very soft and subtle way of brainwashing that you submit yourself to! You don’t want this? Switch off that TV!

5. You get sucked into a fictional Illusion which makes you unhappy in real Life!

Last but definitely not least is this point. I cannot stress this enough because it is something you often don’t even realize anymore, especially if you watch a lot of TV: those movies and shows absorb you. It is just fiction but it is so well played and directed that you identify with the main characters and you take all their emotions on you! You suffer with them and you are happy with them! What is the problem with that?

You slowly lose your connection to real life. Seems exaggerated to you? It is not! It is a slow process that pulls you into this fictional world. You start thinking and imagining as if that world really existed. You compare your life to what you see on the screen – and you will never ever feel that your life is better!

It is obvious that your real life cannot be as exciting, fantastic and full of events as TV and movie life is! They cram a whole life’s story in two hours and you are left with the feeling that you are missing something! Soap operas live from the fact that every week someone either dies, gets married, cheated on, has an accident and is saved or finds the love of his life! If it was too close to real life, it would be boring and nobody would watch it – because why would you watch a normal person just like you? Even shows like ‘Big Brother’ choose participants who are a bit different than the normal, regular person, just to make it more interesting!

What we have as a result of today’s TV habits is a whole lot of people who have unrealistic expectations on life and are bitterly disappointed in the consequence!

Get away from your screen, take your kids out in nature, enjoy real life and start living again!