"My Odyssey"

As I move along on this odyssey of not watching Network television. I am discovering its like kicking any other bad habit. The monotony of getting up, walking over to the remote and turning on the TV, knowing you are going to see and hear the same drug, carpet, furniture, car or beer commercial is gone. Of coarse it depends on the time of day which audience is the target. It feels so good, "Not" to be a target anymore. That was the up, the downs are. It was habit forming but I'm very slowly breaking that nasty rhythm of doing the same thing over and over again.. Its not as bad as drinking, smoking or using drugs because there are no intense cravings a or constant desire to do it. It was a subtle desire to watch TV with my mind thinking its OK to do that because everybody else does. Its just a really bad habit anybody can break. Its almost like trying to stop biting your nails...  I just feel sad for the people who watch the commercials unconsciously doing what they want not realizing they are wasting their lives being convinced that it doesn't hurt you. So on and on it goes, walking in the house turning on the TV just for noise or to give the kids something to do then realizing you are staring at the constant flow of mind numbing idiots telling you that you need this or that...Only you had better get now while the sale is on or before they run out of whatever they are trying to sell you..Those are lies.... They don't say its a constant sale or its impossible to run out of anything...  It simply means you are a robot doing what they want and you don't even know what you are doing. Meanwhile those kids you put in front of the TV are being programed to be just like you and the ad agency's that do these things know this....