Is TV in any way necessary for your life? My claim was always: No, you do not need TV, but sometimes it is really nice to relax. And after many news shows nowadays also allow you to watch online (like the really great service of Tagesschau in Germany), staying up to date is easy and convenient even without a TV set (and I really have/want to watch a news show).
After a week of ignoring my TV - which was a combination of "I do not have time to watch anyway" or "I just do not switch it on now and do something else with my time" - I came to the conclusion that it is really not that big a deal. Maybe that's also a result of me mostly using the TV as a type of background noise which was now replaced by music, so I was not missing TV at all.
And OK, once in a while I was still watching a video on my computer. Sometimes you need distraction from this world and your life in particular...
After a week of ignoring my TV - which was a combination of "I do not have time to watch anyway" or "I just do not switch it on now and do something else with my time" - I came to the conclusion that it is really not that big a deal. Maybe that's also a result of me mostly using the TV as a type of background noise which was now replaced by music, so I was not missing TV at all.
And OK, once in a while I was still watching a video on my computer. Sometimes you need distraction from this world and your life in particular...