You are what you watch
- What would your face look like at age 40 if all you watched was the NEWS?
- what would it be like if you only watched comedy shows and movies?
- Would you look like a million dollars if all you watched were financial channels?Just like some people start reading the newspaper from the back to the front and vice versa, some people have watching patterns that only seem to grow into one area in life without them noticing.
Some people only watch sport channels, others only watch opera winfrey like shows. Some people pop on DVD after the other trying to finish a never ending stream of episodes like LOST and Prison break and desperate housewives and anything that comes out.Originally they were meant to be weekly episodes, no not me says the active follower, all or non!
Having a diverse sense of program/movie watching will widen ones scope in life and affect his general well being in the process. Can you imagine sitting with a person that only watches financial news for 2 hours and you don’t know what the currency is for france is? no its not the French Franc, they changed it a few days ago to Euro.
What about a combination of two people one likes Sports and the other news, I mean real hard core political news. I can imagine the dialogue:
“Did you see last night’s semi finals?” “ Oh yeah it seems like the Bush administration is falling behind, sorry! is that what you meant?” BORING!
What we should do is keep a piece of paper beside the TV and write down all the things you watch for a few weeks, lets say 21 days. Take that piece of input and see how much time you spend on each area or category. It should give you a better understanding of what you appear to other people. Why do I say appear, well you can tell allot about people from their diverse conversation capabilities, some just go blank, while other sjust amaze you with their knowledge.
I am a more a reader than a TV watcher, but I do put in hours of TV watching when i am on idle, and it seems to carry me away. I have found out that i do not shy away from seasons of new material or shows, I tend to find the ones that end daily, so I don’t have to come back for more, what about my time? So a good example here would be Las Vegas, and not LOST( who cares after a while, they’re on the island, off the island, back to the island..come on).
I can say I am 70% into humor and 30% everything else, everything! I don’t watch horror movies, had my share when I was young with the basic Frankestien, werewolves and vampires. I like National Geographic with all its amazing footage and adventure on our planet.
There is this one gentlemen who watches movies back to back, even re-runs on a movie channel for 2 to 3 days, alone. Would you like his number? very sociable young man,NOT!
So in the end, you are what you eat, what you read and also what you watch.
Mamdooh Al-Radadi
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What about cultural & media’s diversity Mamdoh?
How many of us watch Arabic shows (Egyptian series, gulf series …). Would you watch just anything for the sake of being versatile, or would you elect what suits you the best? What about those folks with 0 watching rate?
The way I see it: information , topics and influence is gained from >> media (regardless of its form: printed as books or newspapers / internet …..), friends and experiences. So if I only watched comic series on the sliver screen , get my news share from a newspaper, documentaries from the internet , technicality from books and cultural issues from friends ,I would still be current & exposed.
But I agree with you that “Having a diverse sense of program/movie watching will widen ones scope” my only argument that the relation is not exclusive to TV.
Ummmmmmmm; Why do you think that a dialogue can not be carried between 2 extremely opposite individuals? Due to the hug gaps between generations in our society, we seem to challenge difference everyday. I witnessed my grandma having a very fruitful conversation with my little cousin about a wii game and they both enjoyed it. I have got to say it is all about the well (we have got to put our diffrnecs aside and try to find a common ground).
But I strongly agree with you “we should keep a close monitoring on what we watch”. Especially with the kids as their brains absorbs & they mimic every little thing they see (how I like the PG rating on western channels). I know that watching TV is 4 fun on our idle time, but we still should not just waste it on anything.
Thank you for lighting up TV infulnce on us.
So if I only watched comic series on the sliver screen , get my news share from a newspaper, documentaries from the internet , technicality from books and cultural issues from friends ,I would still be current & exposed.
I actually copied and pasted that from your wise words… nicely put. You nailed my message, you are basically diversifying your sources, excellent way, and to asure you, it is my only way. I have nothing to add to your wonderful injection of wisdom, keep it up.
As for the debate between two total diverse people, that’s not what I meant, i mean to say if you have nothing to say or know in the other things that surround and challenge are existence? how can you keep up with an informed person? it will eventually end. It is like when we meet an intellect and want to suck him dry for what he knows, over the longest possible time possible to both people, well people always like to be with a better person if they want to excel, besides envious ones. So in the end, like that little child befriending a 2 year older child for the fascination of being with an older person…its all good!
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