Confessions of a Junkie

I have something to confess. I have something to disclose….For those who knows me, this won't come as a surprise. If you don't know me, read on. This is nothing serious...this is nothing new. You be the judge.

I have an addiction. My addiction is popularly known as the "Couch Potato", Other monickers would be a tv junkie or tv addict. Those are the referred to an individual who strive on wanting to watch television everyday. People such as I whose mantra in life are the words “Television is my life, I consider it the air I need to breath”… pathetic it may seem to some but it’s true. Take television away from me and life is reduced to nothing but a meaningless existence. In a work free day spent at home, a minimum of 6, 7 hours to maybe 10 hours top (maybe even longer) will be in front of the tv set watching either a regular cable-local tv program or a tv series marathon.

So how did I become a junkie? The roots of my addiction are kind of hard to extract. It all started as a kid, watching kiddie shows on tv right after coming home from school, it seemed innocent at first. Little did I know that I was headed straight to a trap, set by this seemingly harmless cube set in our living room.

I noticed the change during highschool, on my 3rd year to be exact…suddenly I could not wait for the bell signaling the end of the class to ring, so I could dashed out to the doors and head straight home to watch Charle’s In-Charge during weekday afternoons. There was no staying in school after class for me to hang out with friends. I was always in a hurry to get home to my beloved television. Then came the 4th year of high school where I continue to rush home day after day to be reunited with my beloved television. I started studying right in front of the television, where it kept me company weather I was answering school assignments or reviewing for school exams. I can still remember the school’s annual retreat for graduating students. It got scheduled on a Friday all through the weekend. If I were a “sober” , this would probably excite me but since I’m not…It only gave me anxiety. Friday night is “Baywatch” night…I would not and could not miss this out, no way so the junkie that I am made up some silly excuse which eventually my teachers bought cause I was able to miss the retreat and spend my Friday night watching, gazing at David Charvey and David Hasselhoff's well defined physique and admiring Kelly Slater's surfing maneuvers

And so my addiction continued throughout college where I managed to find the right schedules for my class in order for me to continue my affair with teevee. When I got stuck in a class at 9.30 to 10.20am class (where my favorite 30 minute program was aired at 10.30am, making it impossible for me to get home on time to see it) I brought a portable tv right at school and choose a quiet and empty room right after my class and watch my favorite program w/c by the way was a telenovela entitled "Agujetas de Color de Rosas". Also the very novela that started my latinovela addictions for that decade.

I tried so hard to overcome my addictions really but I guess as the saying goes “the spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak” in my case, my weakness is television. Just can’t get enough of it. From the usual daily programming to the weekly airing of certain series…I watched em’ all. Latinovelas, I’ve been addicted to it since 1995, variety shows for like forever, reality shows, well ever since “Survivor Amazon”, and sports shows like the PBA, when in 1996 (during 1st time it started airing here in CDO). I was hooked as I watched my favorite PBA team, the Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs now known as Derby Ace Llamados came out as a champions in one of the conferences that year, I could hardly remember the conference title but if my memory serves me right I think it was against Ginebra in the “All Filipino Cup”. Yeah, I think that was it. Until this time where my latest squeeze is abs-cbn’s “Imortal” the AL-JLC supported by Maricar Reyes

starer about the war between werewolves and vampires.

There you have it. It’s now out. I’m a couch potato, a tv addict/junkie. Add a remote control freak to that. I could never stay in one channel long enough, whenever programs paused for advertisements, I’m off surfing other channels checking out what’s on. I don’t know when my addictions would stop (not that I actually want it to stop). But, hey I’m not complaining. It doesn’t cost much (except perhaps in my electric bill) and it’s totally harmless, right? Some say I should get a life, but hey I do have a life…Television! It’s my life remember…it’s the air I need to breath….hehehe…lol.

what did you expect to read?...confessions to coccaine? marijuana? sorry to disappoint you readers...my addictions are untreatable...for I refuse to change my ways....