It is reassuring having television in your life when it is something you have grown up with. You look back fondly on the shows you used to watch as a child and may even find them being repeated on one of the many television channels now available. Before going to work, you can switch on the television and see the familiar news presenters telling you what is going on in the world and when you come home you find yourself watching games shows or whatever else is being shown at that time.

Television has come to play an important role in everyday life, and most people own at least one television. Nowadays, children are likely to have a television in their room, as are parents, so that the whole family doesn’t have to sit around a single television set. There are different channels and television shows aimed at all kinds of people and so you’re never stuck for choice. Whether you enjoy sports, cartoons, movies, sport or reality television you are bound to find something to suit your taste.

With so many channels to choose from and the ability to watch television throughout the night, it is easy to see how television has taken over people’s lives. Instead of trying to interact with your children, it is much easier to sit them in front of the television when this is the only thing that keeps them quiet. People are getting heavier and more depressed while they watch successful, glamorous individuals living the kind of life they would like to live.

Television can hardly be said to have had a positive effect on people’s lives when people are too busy watching other people on their television screens to bother living their own lives. It has an addictive quality to it, though, and it is much more convenient to watch other people decorating their homes or embarking on an around-the-world venture, even if it does leave them feeling rather dissatisfied with the way their own lives are going.

Many people would find it difficult to imagine life without television, because they have so little to do in their lives that they would struggle to fill their time. Watching television has become a habit and so you don’t even bother to question its presence in your life. Children are growing up thinking that watching television is a better way to spend their time than going outside to play with their friends, which clearly is not a healthy state of affairs when they have a good chance of growing into overweight and socially isolated adults.