A Good Thing

Joshua and I do not own a television and, for now, we do not want one.

My parents keep offering to buy us one, but we keep insisting that they not do so.

The only thing we ever want to watch on television is college basketball and football, and we can do that over at my parents' house on Saturday afternoons. Otherwise, television is a distraction from other things that are much more important to us right now.

When my brothers and I were growing up, our parents would strictly limit the amount of television we were permitted to watch, and somehow I never got into it, and neither did my brothers.

On the whole, I think this was a good thing.