“The tube” never really played a huge role during my adolescence. Partly because my mom did not always allow it, and partly because I was interested in other things like being outdoors, coloring, and playing pretend. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed TV and never missed an episode of Zoobalie Zoo, but I loved playing games and stuff with my friends more.

Playing pretend was the best game. I used to go to a catholic school and can remember when my friends and I used to pretend that we were priests. We would pretend that my living room was the church. We’d use the microwave as the tabernacle and potato chips as Holy Communion. Our biggest fights were who was going to be the priest first. It’s funny looking back now at how simple games like “pretend” amused little kids.

Another influence in my life has been the television. The television is a great source of entertainment, but is often deceiving. It can create certain images of the perfect person, or lifestyle. Thus, leaving its’ viewer dissatisfied with themselves, always wanting to change their images to the mold of that picture perfect person on the television screen. I have fallen victim to this epidemic as well. I’ve been inoculated with false images of the perfect woman, the idealist lifestyle.

My real addiction, however, didn’t develop until my high school years when I found out about this new phenomenon everyone was talking about, The Internet. Apparently, you could install a program called America Online into your computer, and if you had a telephone line, you could talk to your friends through a computer without speaking out loud on a telephone. It was called instant messaging. This was definitely something that I had to have. Luckily, my parents decided to check out this new phenomenon because some people predicted that it would shape our lives in the years to come. I just wanted to talk to my friends.

However, television has also been an inspiration in my life as well. Through certain programs, I’ve developed interests in certain professional fields that I don’t think I would have acquired elsewhere. After watching Law and Order, I decided to take some law courses to learn a little bit more about lawyers. Although I didn’t develop an interest

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