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Show Life and other trivialities ... guess I'm finally sick of MASH by Steve Christensen Assistant Editor I came home from a meeting one night last week and turned on the television set to watch MASH. It was one I had already seen about 10 times, but since that had never stopped me before, I sat down to watch. When I come home late I like to just sit down and do nothing for awhile before I go to bed. Such was the case this night. I don't watch television much, but sometimes I really don't want to think, I just want to be entertained and do nothing. So I began to watch this episode where all the army script is exchanged, Hawkeye loses some patient's money, and pulls a con on Winchester to get money to pay the patient back. I sat there for about 10 minutes, and realize I'm not relaxing like I want to. In fact, I'm getting very' nervous. Finally. I jump up and turn the set off. I pace the floor for a few minutes, and finally begin to settle down. I later realized it wasn't the show that got to me, it was my habit. I knew that episode practically line for line, but for some unexplainable reason I sat down to watch it anyway. How many times our lives are controlled by habit, rather than a conscious thought process! Of course not all habits are bai S; boss likes my habit of showing up to wtrt every day. And my body likes my fubi of eating three meals a day. And cv landlord likes my habit of payirg Et rent every month. But just because scce habits are necessary, and some ev-good, ev-good, doesn't mean everythicg we must be from habit. There is an old adage that goe something like, a change is as good as a rest. I've always thought that measvai should change jobs every five Tea.-s j something. Maybe it pertains to t'--' a lot smaller too. I think I'D ts Johnny Carson for awhile. |