OUR BLACK HOLE

A black hole is all of the things that distracts us from studies or distracts us from doing our work or sends us astray from our goal and instead leads us to the wrong direction and the wrong path of life and by doing all of these things we start to get bad grades in our school, we start to fail many subjects, and sometimes we even start committing bad habits such as taking drugs which may affect our health and life greatly.

The two main black holes of our life that sucks up all of our time is television and internet, as many people say that a television set is like a one-eyed ghost in ones house. A television sucks up most of the free time that many teenagers have, instead of going out of the house and play soccer or basketball in the fresh air many teenagers and also adults and young children like to spend their time indoors in front of the television.

The main reason why televisions are so addictive is due to the amount of series on the TV itself, one channel may contain about ten to twenty TV shows each one different and much more interesting than the other, and because all of these shows are so interesting many of us like to spend our time watching these shows. On average, a teenager spends 3-4 hours watching TV that makes 21-28 hours a week. The 28 hours a teenager wastes on watching TV can be spent on doing valuable, intellectual and knowledgeable stuff such as reading books during your free time and thus increasing your vocabulary.

Children wasting their time watching television

Another reason why televisions are our black hole is the lust and the greed of being popular at school. Teenagers normally have the psychology that if you watch a lot of shows or movies or if you spend more time watching series it will make you popular and everyone will start to call you and more people will know you.

Television is a powerful weapon that destroys ‘family time’. TV sucks up most of the time leaving no space for one to interact with their family or have conversations with them. This is because, we are so much engrossed in watching TV that we do not have time or do not want to sit down with our family and have beautiful conversations. Here, we give the television more importance than your family and this prevents you to spend time with them.

People wasting their precious time using internet

Internet is another reason why we waste a lot of our time because, the internet contains the information of everything that there is in this world, you name it and you will find it on the net and if by chance you don’t find what you are looking for on Google, then you can use social networking sites such as Ask.com and people will answer your questions in the blink of the eye. We often start searching the net to look for something informative however  end up on different social networking sites socializing thus wasting a lot of time and end up spending 2-3 hours per day socializing.

So it turns out that television and internet suck up most of our time and thus being a deep black hole in our life. As an old proverb suggests; “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time”. So basically a black hole is something that you do not regret. So we as teenagers, love spending time on TV and Internet and never regret. However, we must reduce the time we spend on them.