The habit of waking up on a leisurely Saturday morning and turning the TV on to anything that is on is not that easy to break. I found myself one morning (a month after turning off cable TV) staring into the dark screen of the TV with a yearning for something that no TV could give me. Was it companionship? Was it a yearning for conversation or a need for meditation? Whatever it was I needed, it could not be satisfied with the TV. As I mentioned in an older post, my family still watches TV from time to time, but because we have no cable anymore, we need to know what we want to watch on Hulu or Netflix before we turn the TV on. It's a new and refreshing experience... to think about what you want before turning on the TV.
As I stared at the dark screen of the TV that morning, I knew I did not want to turn it on. I needed something else. This is what we did instead....
Going on 6 months of no cable, I haven't regretted the decision. I think John misses "The Mentalist" and "Weeds", but he seems to find his shows eventually online or on the network's website. We have been fine without cable. Even Lucas watches less TV. If he does watch, he chooses a show like his favorite "Johnny Test" and plays it over and over again. But what 7-year-old doesn't do that?
