WRITING
Hobby Time!
part two
Most of us are committed to spending a certain number of hours every day working, often for someone else, just to earn enough money to get through to the next paycheck. Does this sound like you?
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At the end of the working day, we need to find something to make us feel good, to enable us to endure the next day's hard graft. Governments are wise to this formula and have enabled the average working man/woman to be able to afford entertainment in their homes.
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Television helps us wind down - or does it?
I don't watch television. I've always felt, although there are some great programmes and lots of learning to be gained, the television companies are determining WHAT we watch and WHEN we watch it. I want to decide those things for myself.
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I had a cold sales call one evening. While trying to sell me a phone package deal, the sales person referred to a tv advert. I told her I was unaware of this advert because I don't watch TV. She kept me talking for 10 minutes during which time she referred to this particular TV advert a further 4 times, and each time I assured her I had not seen it because I don't watch television. She didn't believe me at all.
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So everyone in our region watches the same adverts, the same programmes, the same news stories every single day or night? Yep, I guess that's what's happening. We are all thinking the same thoughts. Our brainwaves are tuned to the exact same brand of fish fingers being the best thing for our kids since sliced bread - a highly debateable point! And we have no time left for ourselves.
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So coming back to hobby time...