LOST Adiction

There is no doubt that television series are part of our daily life as they are taking a shower, brushing your teeth or sleeping. Knowingly or not, we watch TV series few times a day. Maybe you are kooking or having lunch and you have the TV switched on, and a serie is broadcasting on the screen. But in our “stressed” life, sometimes you don’t have time enough to watch your favourite serie or you don’t want to wait a week to watch a new episode. Just one word: The Internet. It provides you the solution. On the web, you can find all the series you can imagine, and as easy as a click you can watch them whenever you want. No advertisements, high definition, subtitles, original version... What else you would like?

That’s the reason I get hooked on LOST. Some friends told me about it, so one day, I decided to try. From the first episode, I realized it was going to be my “drug” in my free time (and sometimes not only in my free time but also when I’m bussy I spend my time watching LOST instead of doing what I’m supposed to do).

I had got bored of the rest of the series: love as usual, mystery as usual, comedy as usual... Why not a serie with a little bit different approach? In LOST you can find all of that but from a new poit of view, in my opinion, a more intelligent point of view.

A brief summary to understand better what I´m talking about: the LOST’s characters have had a plane crashed and they are trapped in a desert island in which very strange things happen they can’t explain. Under such circumstances there’s no place to love, comedy or mystery as usual. And why don’t admit it, who has never dreamed about keeping trapped in a desert island?

I have confessed I’m a LOST addict. But should I think why? It’s because is time for new kind of more intelligent/ interesting series or we are proud of that because it sounds cooler to say you watch LOST than you are a Supermodel fan?

Perhaps there’s no time for more intelligent or interesting series, but just for a new way of life that you express as your behaviour as your dress style or the kind of series, books or music you use to watch, read or listen.

Maybe that’s true and I watch it because is one of the premises to belong to the group of people I identify with... But however it is, I’m going to take my dayly drug: a LOST episode.

Childhood memories

When I think about my childhood, I believe that it was the best time in my life (no problems, no rules, no needs except a lollipop...). But I also think that my great memories are largely dependent on the education my parents gave me. Due to the importance of your parents have on your education, I think that maybe I could not be able to educate a child because I do not know if there is a correct way to do it, and this feeling makes me unhappy and worried.

A mathematical problem, a grammatical one, etc., have just one correct way to solve it, but when we talk about child’s education, there are a lot of factors you cannot control and could have negative consequences on child’s life. I know that I cannot try to explain the educational proccess as a mathematical problem, but maybe I do it because I think that I need a guide to learn how to teach a child to be an adult.

Maybe is also because I think that I would be able to educate a child in the eighties (when I was a child), but not nowadays: this world we live in seems strange to me. I did not try too many things children have nowadays, so I cannot teach a child how to use them, how to interact with them. The Internet, console games, hundred of channels on the TV... How coud I survive without that? I do not know, but I did it. But is a truth that a child nowadays cannot, so what I am supposed to do? Try to keep my child off of that? or understand that I am going to educate him learning at the same time as he does?

Perhaps the only answer to these questions is that I must wait to feel the maternal instinct to guess how I should behave. Is too soon to try to find an answer.