Alright, I forgot to pay my cable bill last month. I forgot and it got turned off. Yes, yes, please feel for me. But I knew a lot of my friends that didn’t have cable and were leading seemingly normal, healthy lives.
What I didn’t know was that secretly they were insane human beings glued to their computers waiting for hulu to update. I missed umpteen episodes of Big Bang Theory, New Girl, and yes, I really missed watching my late night news and documentaries. But guess what else I learned? I survived. I lived without tv shows.
The sun came up the next day. The earth still spun around and there were no zombies knocking at my door (no matter how much I missed Walking Dead.)
I can and have survived without cable. That isn’t to say that I was totally happy about it. People kept ruining the end of episodes by posting them on Facebook or twitter immediately after they happened and I lost my patience more than once with these “serial spoilers.”
If you’re looking to live without cable for a month and you don’t want your shows to be spoiled for you, I suggest taking a hiatus from the internet too. Though, at that point, you really should just move to Newfoundland and be a hermit. It’ll be better for your sanity.
