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Abstinence from Watching TV

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While writing the Letter to my Abstinence and taking a decision to recover from my addiction of watching Indian TV serials, I was pretty sure that I would do it at any cost and thought that my course work of reading and writing would not give me time to watch them so that would be easy for me to do. As I started off with my 6 weeks of abstinence, the very first day I watched the serials and then told myself that I’m going to do it from the next day. This lapse went on the same way for the rest of the days till the first week of the abstinence. After this, I thought that I would maintain this 6 weeks of not watching TV serials till an extent I can and if I cannot, in the worst cases, I would give up. In the next weeks, I found myself opening the Indian site for written episodes of TV series and also found stopping myself or stopped by others. I found myself stopping to watch or say getting back, after realizing that I’m doing what I’m not supposed to do and working on it. The next couple of weeks I found controlling myself and trying to recover from the addiction and then sometimes lapse due to the external cause- may be a friend’s place where they had Indian TV shows up on their TV. I couldn’t say anything because I didn’t want to disrespect or hurt them in any ways. In the later weeks, I found myself busy with studies and writing work. I didn’t get time to do any other activities. For me it was more important to understand my course work and work according to it than watching the serials. However, I had the thought or say anxiety to watch it. Do things fast and take some time to watch it. I was feeling restless and a bit irked, so I used to watch them throughout my journey to college or to home. And in the recent weeks I found myself setting a serious goal of not watching TV serials and trying hard to maintain it by keeping myself busy or by diverting my mind by watching movies, reading and researching online the ways

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