Saturday, September 14, 2013

TV's flow (3B)

Everyone I've ever met has watched TV. And the vast majority of people watch it on a regular basis. Some watch the news to know what’s going on in the world. Others watch it for the weather, and some watch it for the entertainment. Now everyone has their reasons for watching it but when I watch TV I lose myself. It’s an escape from the rest of the world. When I’m under a lot of stress, I will on most occasions just sit down watch an episode of a show and just forget all my worries. This is when I get into my state of full relaxation. While it doesn't take much energy to watch TV it does take concentration to not get “sucked in”. When you watch one good episode it’s hard not to want to see the next, but like all students I have work to do. So when I’m overwhelmed ill watch an episode of a good TV show and go into flow. Before long I've had a small break, and a chance to think of what I’m going to do to accomplish my tasks at hand.


Some might say that TV is too passive of an activity to really require a state of flow. But what is flow really? Flow to me is when you are so immensely concentrated on something all other troubles vanish from your mind. All stress is gone from you and you can stay calm for a bit. To me the most important thing in life is to maintain a balance of all modes of thought and emotions. I think the best life will have just as much work done as fun had. Just as much stress as we do relaxation. And to accomplish this we need to set aside times to do certain things. Find what relaxes you and do that for every hour you work. This way you will live a life of prosperity but simultaneously a life of happiness, to have no regrets is life’s greatest possible accomplishment.

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