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A Relaxing Activity

What is television? There are a lot of definitions about television. One of the definitions we can describe that it is one of electrical equipment with a screen on which you can watch moving pictures and sounds. Everyone absolutely knows about it. Almost all of people all over the world even have television in their home. When someone asked how important the television is, they will answer that television is very important. Some will also say “I can’t live without television”. It sounds so hyperbole. But, it is the fact. The truth says something like that. Most people have influenced by television. For those, it is addictive thing which couldn’t separate with their life. Many people say that watching television is joyful. There are a lot of reasons strengthen to the statements before.
The first reason why some people say that watching television is joyful is for entertainment. Some people say that television is one of the many ways to disappear own depress. While we are getting stress and wanting to relax our mind after along day activity, we can watch television to disappear it. Why it could be? The simple question that television provides a lot of programs to entertain ourselves, such as music program, box offices, reality show, gossip, etc. Beside it, there are a lot of parody programs to make our brain fresh and absolutely we can laugh more and forget for a minute the problems which we are facing. Many people consider watching television in the night, especially for a busy person to relax their selves. They also can share with their family while watching television.
The second, television is as one of information media. We can get a lot of actual information all over the world. Economic, social, politic are pictured in television. There are also many programs in television which is pictured the problems or improvement every district, even in every country around the world. It is not only about that, but also about disaster or accident which faced at that time. We will know the condition outside the world. Beside it, we can get a lot of knowledge by watching television. Television also can sharpen our brain. Television not only provides the programs to entertain or much news but also some quiz which challenging ourselves. We can get a satisfaction feeling while we contribute to answer the question. We can get some money too in quiz which showed in television.
The last reason, television is for education. It is not only for adult but also for children. While children watching television, they are not only enjoyed what is pictured but also they can learn something the message in it. It can called television is for edutainment. For students, they can improve their skill especially in English by watching some programs in English language. For example, while their teacher assign them to make a review some news in television program which provided in English, they are not only hearing and get more knowledge, but also sharpen their skill in listening skill. Different for housewife, they tend watching television to wait cooking program. Yeah, some programs provide cooking program. It is suitable for us especially for housewife whom want to learn more about cooking. They can improve their skill in cooking while watching cooking program.
Actually, there are a lot of reasons why people say that watching television is joyful. Sometimes, we can’t describe it by words. We can feel it. We can feel how important television is for us. The first and important thing that television brings us as civilization citizen to make our future earth better than before.