Saturday, February 8, 2014

one more thing to the list



I don't know if you've ever made a grocery list, went shopping, came home and forgot that one important item that was staring you in the face the whole time. So I guess there's one more thing to add to my I Ho Chuan goals; "NO TELEVISION". I disconnected my cable about 12 or 13 years ago as I found it to be one of the most useless mediums I had in my life; it was time consuming, distracting, left me craving for more and feeling "full of less".  For most people, I would imagine that you could pick a few favorite shows, keep an interest, sit down, rest your body and find it an ok activity. For me It's not like that; it was pointed out this weekend that I get distracted easily, but I love "doing nothing and feeling great" and television does that for me, "for a time". I'm the guy with the remote that watches all 52 channels 4 seconds at a time, I'm the guy searching for something to give me a better rush than the previous program, I'm the guy that will tune you out while this is all happening, making a feeble attempt to pay attention. It culminated this weekend when I ran out of justification and looked at the moment. I had picked Sunday morning as my rest and down time to recharge and catch up on my reading/s, sat down at 10:00 looked at the clock and is was 17:00. I became so focused on the nothingness I was watching, that the world around me wasn't there. People were being ignored, nothing was being accomplished, that itchy scratchy feeling on the inside was there and I couldn't ignore it. I reached over, punched "off" on the remote, looked over at Ms. Mental Health (my girlfriend) and looking her straight in the eye, I said, "this is done, this is ruining everything and yet, there's nothing more I want to do than to turn this thing back on". The withdrawl over the next day was like any drug you withdrawl from, the symptoms were there, but it was enough. So to adding to my list is to really getting rid of something, which I think can be a good thing. Robert.
I Ho Chuan start;
Day 1
Pushups 180
Sit ups 180
Forms 2

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