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In reply to the discussion: How I got my creativity back [View all]
 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
6. How true, how true.
Thu May 23, 2013, 12:30 AM
May 2013

I have two grown sons, and the older one likewise has no TV. He spent a week with me a couple of months ago and there was never any sense of "What should we be watching now?"

Younger son does have a TV, I know, but he lives about 1500 miles away and hasn't been able to visit me in three years. But he does know what my lifestyle is and won't complain whenever he gets here.

I will say that I am honestly surprised at how easy it is not to have one. Maybe it's because they're so readily available everywhere, and as I've already noted I can watch most TV shows on the internet. But every so often I'll be reading, or listening to the radio (something on NPR or some other public radio network) and embroidering, and I'll look around my small living room and realize that to most people the lack of a TV would be odd.

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