Have you ever had the feeling that you have to go out and do something but just cannot get up from the couch?
Well, that's the case with me now a days. My heart tells me I want to go for a long walk or go to the shop near by to get milk and green chillies. But my body doesn't budge. It simply refuses to listen to me and move. The only thing that moves are my fingers changing the channels or the movies on my TV.
How did I get so addicted to the couch? Well, How can I ask such a stupid question? I know the answer.. I always was.
As far as I can remember I was in love with TV, books and movies. Now I can add computer to the list. Whenever I get free time I do nothing but watch TV, or do something online like read (switched to ebooks from paper backs and hard binds) or blog. Its never ending, you know.
If I'm watching TV there is something good in one channel or the other. Thank goodness, channels are never gonna get scarce. As I am interested in almost everything its pretty difficult to shut off the TV. Its F.R.I.E.N.D.S. on Star World or Food Paradise on TLC or Nat Geo Rush or Buck Stops Here on NDTV 24x7 or Trailers on Channel V or All About Ads on Profit or Monsters Inside You on Discovery or movies on all the movies channels you can think of or (last but not the least) Cartoons. Even if I get bored with all the 184 channels that are on my finger tips I can always plug in the hard disk and watch the movies and documentaries that I had downloaded.
That brings me to the online devil... Funny term.. Online... They say the new technology 3G mobiles keep you online all the time, keeps you connected to the world. Tell that to my friend whose 12 year old hardly finds time to talk to her after posting her thoughts and scrapping her friends. My friend has to get to know her child through Facebook, Orkut and Blogs. Tell that to the teachers who finds it a humongous task to keep their students "online" (in the traditional sense).
Well, you can' t always blame the internet. There are plus points too, like what I do online... :P
I mainly download movies, music, documentaries, books, series, etc., check my mails (most of which are forwards from friends and family, which I wish were not), blog, randomly search some topic and read, look for good recipes and other how to do stuff, post pictures in social networking sites, etc.. Pretty boring I know. But then at least I do get up from the couch in front of the TV and move to the couch in front of my PC. :)
You know what my second biggest addiction is? Walking. Can you believe it? I know, I know its too good to be true and so extremely extreme. But its true. Whenever there is no couch and I feel bored I go for long walks.
I used to go for long walks during my college days. I have walked all the way from Trivandrum to Kovalam, from Kakkanad to Marine drive and back, from Karapparamba through beach to Chalappuram, from Statue to Sreekaryam, to name a few. I still go for long walks on the beach with my husband on weekends (whenever we find time to get off the couch that is).
So as I told you... my mind and body seem to be in totally different frequencies sometime. Like when I have a couch around and my mind tells me to get off my butt and go for a walk, my body responds as if there is Lakshman Rekha drawn around the couch. In all this confusion I have gained a lot... you know what I mean... ;)
Well, that's the case with me now a days. My heart tells me I want to go for a long walk or go to the shop near by to get milk and green chillies. But my body doesn't budge. It simply refuses to listen to me and move. The only thing that moves are my fingers changing the channels or the movies on my TV.
How did I get so addicted to the couch? Well, How can I ask such a stupid question? I know the answer.. I always was.
As far as I can remember I was in love with TV, books and movies. Now I can add computer to the list. Whenever I get free time I do nothing but watch TV, or do something online like read (switched to ebooks from paper backs and hard binds) or blog. Its never ending, you know.
If I'm watching TV there is something good in one channel or the other. Thank goodness, channels are never gonna get scarce. As I am interested in almost everything its pretty difficult to shut off the TV. Its F.R.I.E.N.D.S. on Star World or Food Paradise on TLC or Nat Geo Rush or Buck Stops Here on NDTV 24x7 or Trailers on Channel V or All About Ads on Profit or Monsters Inside You on Discovery or movies on all the movies channels you can think of or (last but not the least) Cartoons. Even if I get bored with all the 184 channels that are on my finger tips I can always plug in the hard disk and watch the movies and documentaries that I had downloaded.
That brings me to the online devil... Funny term.. Online... They say the new technology 3G mobiles keep you online all the time, keeps you connected to the world. Tell that to my friend whose 12 year old hardly finds time to talk to her after posting her thoughts and scrapping her friends. My friend has to get to know her child through Facebook, Orkut and Blogs. Tell that to the teachers who finds it a humongous task to keep their students "online" (in the traditional sense).
Well, you can' t always blame the internet. There are plus points too, like what I do online... :P
I mainly download movies, music, documentaries, books, series, etc., check my mails (most of which are forwards from friends and family, which I wish were not), blog, randomly search some topic and read, look for good recipes and other how to do stuff, post pictures in social networking sites, etc.. Pretty boring I know. But then at least I do get up from the couch in front of the TV and move to the couch in front of my PC. :)
You know what my second biggest addiction is? Walking. Can you believe it? I know, I know its too good to be true and so extremely extreme. But its true. Whenever there is no couch and I feel bored I go for long walks.
I used to go for long walks during my college days. I have walked all the way from Trivandrum to Kovalam, from Kakkanad to Marine drive and back, from Karapparamba through beach to Chalappuram, from Statue to Sreekaryam, to name a few. I still go for long walks on the beach with my husband on weekends (whenever we find time to get off the couch that is).
So as I told you... my mind and body seem to be in totally different frequencies sometime. Like when I have a couch around and my mind tells me to get off my butt and go for a walk, my body responds as if there is Lakshman Rekha drawn around the couch. In all this confusion I have gained a lot... you know what I mean... ;)
