Blood Sucking TV

If you make a survey about how much percentage of their time at home, does people remain sticked to TV, I am very to afraid to say that it wont be less than fifty percent. The figure I quoted here is truly a personal expectation, but in any case it will be at a alarming level. There are many side-effects to sticking to TV set like strain on eyes, lack of rest, obesity, loss of activeness, strain on relations, wastage of productive time and lastly wastage of electricity (will u agree?).
Even most have a fair idea about these side-effects, why they still get attached to it. In my view, its because it is giving a simplest solution , ofcourse may be imperfect, to some day-to-day problems. For example, in nuclear families people can spend time together only when both of them are free and active. But in these hyper-active days, it happens rarely. If husband comes home getting exhausted, other day its wife turn to get upset. So the exhausted person likes to switch off his brain and TV is providing that facility of killing time without thinking by dumping a variety of data in to us. If the list of favourite programs differ between them, it will be entirely a different story leading to a severe strain on their relations. This is not only a case of nuclear families but equations remain same everywhere.
And now-a-days TV channels had increased in such a number, for every genre of programs there is a different channel. Like sports channel, saas-bahu channel, cartoon channel, news , business channel, nat-geo e.t.c. Selecting & deciding which channel to see is also a hectic task. I am not saying these are big issues. But their very nature of daily re-occurance is making them bigger ones to effect our lives.
So, wasn't their a way out of this. yes there are many, but which one to follow is to be decided by the people who live together. Some of them being going-out, identifying common interests, helping out each other in their daily chores, playing light-hearted games in home, discussing some small general topic in depth after agreeing not to quarrel/argue on it, doing just-4-nothing things, going for a walk(if Ur sorroundings permit) e.t.c. These not only made U better understand your partners, but develop U as person, improving your soft skills and understanding of the things.
I agree that doing these things everyday is difficult. But at end, life is all about spending time lively, rejuvenating whenever Ur lossing spirit & enthusiasm. So, life is a challenge which U always need to face. Rather than giving up to do these things and sticking to blood-sucking TV and facing the consequences, its better to take a proactive step by plucking out the root-cause and making Ur house a lovely home.