Re: Why am I so vulnerable to stress?

It will be 2 years in February since cable was cancelled cable and TV unplugged. It will be 2 years in March that I unplugged my job. What was that job? Sitting in front of multiple computers 8-10 hours a day with a telephone strapped around my head taking phone calls from customers with questions on computers, networks, and computer related gear.

Don't get me wrong. I have not been able to remain 100% TV free. That might be possible if I was content to live under a rock. Each time I go to visit mom & dad, I am assured there will be 2 TVs on, mom's in the living room and dad's in his bedroom. Same thing when I visit brothers, sisters, cousins, friends, neighbors. Geez, any more, if I go to get a quick oil change, there is a TV on in the lobby, if I go to eat out, chances are good there will be one or more TVs on there. The brand new super duper grocery just down the street even has Plasma TVs instlled and always on now. Almost seems like the only place where there is not a TV on is in my house......and the path I walk my dog on. That's it. My house and the path I walk my dog on seems to be the only two places left in this world where there is not a TV on ;)

It has become a familiar routine for me, in a sad way, to have one person after another that i know, look me in the eye, with their TV on in the back ground and they say "you can't be serious, you're saying that stuff coming out of the TV is a bad influence?". I look them in the eye and say "well, I can understand your skepticism, kinda like the hooked addict who is skeptical, unable to see the harm in their habbit; as long as they have that needle stuck into a vein keeping their neurons happily numb, I can imagine it's easy for them to go on with the false belief that there is no harm in constantly numb neurons"