25 years ago I gave up TV. I was pregnant with my first child and decided - overnight - I’d do it for her. It was weird for about a week. I missed Seinfeld.
Then, as with all things, I got used to it and it just was.
Other people had a harder time with it than I… ”What?! You don’t watch TV? What do you DO?!” They would get kinda mad. Oddly.
“Lotsa stuff,” I’d reply.
17 years ago I stopped cooking my food and eating animal products. I did it overnight, like the TV thing. It stuck for 7 years, during which my whole family ate “raw vegan.” I opened a raw vegan restaurant because it was so labor intensive to make the food and I wanted to bring this amazing way of eating to the Community. “How hard can it be to open a restaurant?” I asked. 😉
Today I eat and drink anything I want whenever I want and I watch TV. My favorites are Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ted Lasso, Shark Tank and Sex and the City. I also love documentaries, especially about athletes, entrepreneurs and masters of anything.
I still don’t know how to turn on the TV or find shows. My Chickens 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 do that for me because I never watch alone. For some reason I find that depressing. Not sure why and don’t wanna analyze it. (Even and especially after doing many years of training in Psychology and accruing many degrees, the last thing I wanna do is analyze - go back. I choose instead to live in the now and tend to my vibration.)
After we eat family dinner every night we chill together and watch something.
Today in meditation it came to me to write this blog and to teach myself how to turn on the TV and change channels. Not sure why but I always follow intuition.
The middle way. The Buddha talked about it. Not all the way THIS way or all the way THAT way, but the middle way. I keep finding it, again and again, after swinging big time THIS way and/or swinging big time THAT way.
No mistakes, no regret, no remorse. Don’t believe in ‘em. Just a path filled with learning, joy, and freedom. Free to choose on what I focus. Free to choose how I want to feel.
💫 Our biggest power lies in how good we feel and how well we can maintain that feeling. 💫
Are you swinging one way or the other? Are you finding the middle way? On what are you focused? And does it feel good?