"TV has always been ambient." It took me nearly a decade to break my wife of the "white noise" habit with broadcast TV so we could finally cut the cord. So now white noise is replaced with eternally scrolling for nothing.
yeah, seems like the needs that white noise fulfills don't go away. cutting the cord just creates a need for it somewhere else. i did that too but now i use podcasts for the same purpose (and eternally scrolling for nothing, of course)
I sat in an empty diner last week while waiting for a to-go order and it was the most chilled out I'd been in weeks. They served me coffee and I watched people walk by the large front window. Like you suggest, it was a break from the frenzy of activity that's colonized my house.
That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about - situations like that are some of the only times I don't have multiple screens in front of me. Home is an intense place right now!
"TV has always been ambient." It took me nearly a decade to break my wife of the "white noise" habit with broadcast TV so we could finally cut the cord. So now white noise is replaced with eternally scrolling for nothing.
yeah, seems like the needs that white noise fulfills don't go away. cutting the cord just creates a need for it somewhere else. i did that too but now i use podcasts for the same purpose (and eternally scrolling for nothing, of course)
I sat in an empty diner last week while waiting for a to-go order and it was the most chilled out I'd been in weeks. They served me coffee and I watched people walk by the large front window. Like you suggest, it was a break from the frenzy of activity that's colonized my house.
That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about - situations like that are some of the only times I don't have multiple screens in front of me. Home is an intense place right now!