I'll chime in with total agreement with the other two comments here and say it's not a bad addiction and you're totally normal!
I've been addicted to one (or more) TV shows my entire life and have never seen anything at all wrong with it. TV and movies -- and the fanfic I've written about many of the same -- have driven me to increase my reading and research, believe it or not! This was true from the time I was a kid and could barely read, actually. I recall so many times that our family would watch a movie on TV and Dad would say something like, "I read the book. This part is different..." or "In the book such-in-such happened..."
I was so impressed by that! (smile)
Good shows and good characters are all about life, anyway. It's like observing the people around us in many ways.
I'm in my 50's. I've been hearing how TV was 'bad for me' since I was a small child. I just have yet to see exactly what bad thing happened to me, though... (I've got a huge circle of friends both on and off line, I'm an active volunteer and am socially aware and involved, I'm over-the-top happy and satisfied with my life and I could go on and on in that vein. So...)
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on 2006-03-28 01:44 am (UTC)I've been addicted to one (or more) TV shows my entire life and have never seen anything at all wrong with it. TV and movies -- and the fanfic I've written about many of the same -- have driven me to increase my reading and research, believe it or not! This was true from the time I was a kid and could barely read, actually. I recall so many times that our family would watch a movie on TV and Dad would say something like, "I read the book. This part is different..." or "In the book such-in-such happened..."
I was so impressed by that! (smile)
Good shows and good characters are all about life, anyway. It's like observing the people around us in many ways.
I'm in my 50's. I've been hearing how TV was 'bad for me' since I was a small child. I just have yet to see exactly what bad thing happened to me, though... (I've got a huge circle of friends both on and off line, I'm an active volunteer and am socially aware and involved, I'm over-the-top happy and satisfied with my life and I could go on and on in that vein. So...)
Go with the flow. How can it possibly hurt you?
(hugs)