Surprisingly I didn't get a chance to write about it last night. I survived my first day being tv-, film-, and magazine-free. It was somewhat harder than I'd expected for a few reasons.
First, the question of whether or not I could watch cartoons. I'm an avid Adult Swim fan, so I'll miss my cartoons. And my friends are sad that they will not be able to watch my Brak collection. But I figure it's the principle of the thing. Although I'm not dealing with such drastic images of body type ideals from cartoons, if I say I'm not going to watch television, I'm not going to watch television. So even though I love my cartoons, I'm NOT going against my plans.
Second, go figure, my friends wanted to see a movie the first night we got back to campus. And I basically had to tell them, "No, I can't go. It would be awful of me to alter and essentially cheat on my plans on the first night." So I helped my friend move into her dorm room instead while everyone else went to the movie. And I think I made a good decision.
It turns out that playing We <3 Katamari with my friends is much more entertaining than I thought. Rolling things into sticky balls is always a good time. And that's all I can say about that.
I do feel myself wanting to turn the television on just for the background noise, which I feel is awfully pathetic. Having a single room can be a little lonely, so to keep myself from talking to myself, I usually have the television going. It makes me feel less alone. I think I might shift to having music on all the time. That feels like a better choice.
I haven't experienced any real changes in how I feel about my body, but I expect that will come in time. Although I have realized that one of two things will happen. Either I will forget about those "perfect bodies" that Hollywood tries to sell, or I will forget about them but turn my attention onto my peers. I'm hoping that the latter does not happen because it makes me feel slightly judgmental, and I just don't like the idea of it. So let's hope for the former!
Haha. I was going to ask if you were avoiding music. Music can have its harmful affects too... so choose wisely.
How long are you forgoing media again? I admire you. Television isn't so hard to give up after a while. I find myself messing around on the internet more than I watch TV, and I only watch TV to keep up on a few shows a week (amounting to about 6 hours of tape a week). Now giving up other media sources might be a bit more troubling. At any rate, good luck again.
~C
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