Musings by Melissa

We have watched more television in the past two weeks than we have in the past two years.  Why?  Because the Olympics have been on.  Who doesn’t love the Olympics?!?  The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat!  Watching the top atheletes in the world compete for gold is always exciting.  Figure skating, the halfpipe, downhill skiing, speed skating …  Names like Lysacek and Plushenko, Apolo Ohno, Shaun White, and Lindsey Vohn will live on in our minds for at least a few weeks.  The numerous crashes.  The death of the Georgian athlete on the luge.  All the beautiful scenes of British Colombia.

What could be finer?

Well, let me tell you… there’ are a number of things that I don’t like about television, but one of them is the advertising.  Oh, television does have it’s share of good ads.  Honestly funny ads that don’t refer to sex or some sort of testosterone cream every thirty seconds.  Ads that don’t degrade women.  Ads that promote healthy values.  It is a sad commentary on our society when these “good” ads are far and few between.

And so, as soon as the Olympics are over, so will our be our television watching.  We don’t need that kind of garbage being paraded into our home on a regular basis.  In fact, most of the Olympics we tape so that we can fast-forward through the commercials later.  (Hey, we can condense a whole night of television into just a couple hours this way!)

I’m not saying everyone must throw away their televisions.  But I am asking that you pay more attention to what you are allowing to be put into your brain.