Assignment 5 - Lia Jacobs - Television to Pass the Time

For me, almost every day is pretty much the same. After driving home from school, I set down my backpack, grab a snack from the kitchen, sit down on the couch, and turn on an episode of television. My parents won't be home for a few hours, and television is the only thing I have found that sufficiently occupies my time. Everything else I have tried to do is far too mundane. With television something new happens each time you watch it, there's always another episode with another story. It's entertaining, but usually not so much that I can't focus on other tasks while I watch. I'm sure if I tried hard enough I could find a more fulfilling task, but television gets the job done. It's a little escape from the day before I have to continue on doing hours of homework. However, if I let the time fly by as it so easily does when you watch television, it just feels like a waste of time. There's no sense of accomplishment, so I just think it's a good way to pass the time.