100 Days Without Television
Hey, yesterday was my birthday (I won't say which one), but yesterday was also another significant day in my and Ēriks's life - exactly the 100th day since we no longer have a television at home in the classical sense. That is, there is a fairly large LED screen in our living room, but no television lives inside it. I'll admit it - one fantastic choice in the modern age.
In the evenings and at weekends, Ēriks is now reading the second volume of Augusts Deglavs's novel "Rīga"; I am drawing layouts, making presentations, scrolling through LinkedIn, and, ok, sometimes disappearing for an hour on Pinterest. At the end of the day, if you want to veg out, you can do that on your mobile phone on social media too.
At home there is no longer the phrase "let's switch on the television", but instead "let's watch that film" or "let's catch that programme" or "let's listen to that speaker." Everything is available on the internet after all - in TV website archives, video or audio platforms.
By the way, I can recommend checking out the YouTube archive for the speakers from this year's creative industries conference "Subject: Creativity." For instance, the talk by priest Andrejs Mediņš. I must say - the man has a gift. It moved me, it moved something in me.
Oh yes - at weekends there is time to go on longer walks around Pārdaugava. Even when you don't feel like anything at all - truly nothing - going out for fresh air is the best solution, because you always come back with a certain dose of energy.
I increasingly hear that people I know are starting to limit the uncontrolled avalanche of information raining down on our heads. Being off social media entirely - I really cannot endorse that approach, because it is a working environment: you have to be there and participate. My social media, for both leisure and work: Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest. I have forgotten my Draugiem.lv passwords and rarely drop into Twitter or Google+.
Hey, how are you with all of this?
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