Media such as television, movies, and the internet can easily cause us to loose track of time. It seems harmless, but the time we spend doing such activities quickly adds up. Watching television a few hours a day means spending six and a half weeks in front of the TV in one year. Over the course of your life, you could easily spend ten years watching television. Living an unbalanced life can be detrimental to your future as well as your spiritual progression. On judgement day I don't want to say I spent ten years sitting in an unresponsive haze, void of any cognitive thought.
Here's an interesting article about this topic:
https://lds.org/ensign/2008/01/unplugged?lang=eng
This is all too true. I haven't missed television at all since my family canceled our subscription years ago. There are so many better things to do in life.
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