Television? What's that?

Nowadays, I often hear many people around me at school talking about something like the latest episode of some show or another, or something about how Character A kissed Character B when Character C is supposed to be engaged to Character A, oh the scandal!!!!

Well, okay. That's not entirely true. I do hear people talk about television shows a lot, though. And in some cases, I do watch television shows myself. Just...not actually on TV, as they air. More often, my viewing experience involves either YouTube or the video rental store.

The main reason for this is that we don't have anything even vaguely resembling cable. But there are certainly more reasons behind it than that. My father, in cancelling our cable in 1997, was doing so in the hopes that it would help his children to read more, and, consequently, become more skilled in the arts of writing and speaking. (This did, initially, work, as I was the only person in my preschool who was able to read the Junior Novelization of Anastasia (or, for that matter, any other movie that was Novelized in a Junior way)). Whether his attempt at enlightening us is still effective to this day is debatable.

But even now, save for the occasional Adventure Time episode, I do very little TV watching. I really have no reason to watch much television. It hasn't affected my life much before, and I certainly don't believe it will affect my life any more than it already has anytime soon.
(Except maybe for making me check my watch in a panic when I am on a plane and 40 minutes have passed. And not blinking around statues.)