Why do you watch TV?
I can not answer this question for you. That's the thing. Are you in charge of your life? Do you decide what you watch? Do you decide how you spend your time? Do you decide what you do every single day? That's my point.
And it is not about going outdoors after work every evening or engage in strange adventures on the weekends. A little bit yes, because it is about being a PILOT, pilot of your life.
For many years, during my young life, I had a deep feeling of anguish. It appeared once in a while at the beginning, but over the years it emerged more frequently invading my normal teenage life. It took me a time (half of my life) to realize that it was a feeling linked to the responsibility of being alive. The weight of doing something with my life. But the context and the environment in which I was immersed showed me a pathway that I did not want for me. Could I renounce to my destiny? Could I change my fate? Could I turn off the TV?
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| If you apply biodynamic agriculture to your farm, you will need to buy fodder for the horses, which in turn produce poo that you will use to fertilize your garden (Lessons and picture from Jérémie). |
My first big decision was to go to Spain to play field hockey for a season. That was very big, because: that meant leaving my hockey team at Rosario, let in pause the 12 exams I had left to get my degree, and the most big big big obstacle it was to act against the wish of my parents. Finish your studies and then go. But I decided to turn off the TV and take the responsibility of my life. I want the freedom and I am able to accept the engagement it entails.
From that day until today, a warm physically relaxed and cerebrally active Monday, I kept taking decisions and taking control of my life. Stop, don't be that dramatic, we all control more or less our lives, we think about it and take decisions. Yes, I agree, but I mean, I could stay more passive and enjoy what I was getting and adapt to what I was offered. Watch the news and then the TV show and then try to dress, have fun and work like proposed. Instead, I started to address the questions: do I really want to live here? Do I really want to become a biochemist? Do I really want to play hockey for the rest of my life? This thought process let me slowly to start driving my life.
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| Each time you decide to take a new road, you will get a gift. |
I don't watch TV because I want to decide what I watch, I don't want to stay in front of the screen and eat what they give. This really makes me feel angry. You stay in front of the TV, watching the news for instance, which I agree it's useful to be aware of what it's going on around, but your thoughts and feelings are being influenced by the scene, you are not the PILOT. So, you spent 1 hour watching and getting data of a bunch of things that you may don't care at all. And if you don't stop this, it starts to drive your time, thoughts, feelings, actions. You want to go to a spa, you want to buy that car, you are worried about the national economy, you want a better salary to be able to buy more things, you simply think that Africa is poor, Europe rich, and etcetera. Do you really want to go to a spa, do you really need to buy that car, etcetera?
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| Take the time to walk |
I don't have a TV, but I have my laptop and I listen to the radio. I do watch videos, I do watch documentaries, I do listen to the news. But I select, I ask myself: is this video interesting for me? Can I get something positive from this thing that could contribute to build my path? This view is quite demanding, rigorous and strict. But it works! It takes you there where you want to be. You want to learn about home design? Ok, take an online course instead of watching random TV, and so on.
So now, we arrive at THE point: what do you want to become? I still don't know but I keep wondering and in the way I become a PILOT.
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| This beautiful under control scene ended with a mildly injured knee. Yes, I swear. |
*I would be grateful if someone could correct my text, thanks!
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