OPINION ESSAY

           How does the watching television too much affect our life? It can be very helpful to people who carefully choose the programs that they watch. Television can increase  our knowledge of outside world and help the old people feel less lonely. Besides, there are high quality programs that help us to understand many fields of study such as science, education, entertainment and technology. However, nowadays, people spend toomuch time on watching TV, especially children. They spend hours sitting in front of TV, which causes a lot of serious harm to our heath and our life.
          Firstly, spending hours concentrating on the screen can make a serious effect on our health. According to many studies, reseachers show that our brain can concentrate only about thirty minutes to an hour. Therefore, every about a half hour our brain needs relaxing for a while. However, everyday, after school, children often sit more hours in front of the TV, watching programs after programs. When constanly focusing like that, our brain have to work hard without relaxing. So it becomes tired, sometimes. As a result, children will have a headache and get stressfull as watching TV too much. Moreover, there is the amount of violence and horror on TV, both in real events, in the news and movies. The fear from horror films created by the dreadful images and language can last for a long time. It scared children and gives them teriible nightmares. In my family,, my younger sister likes watching horror films, especially ghost movies. Everyday, she comes home from school and immediately turns on the TV set at HBO channel.Sometimes, she shouted dreadfully when seeing ghosts with no head and full of blood. And I found out that every time she watches such horrorful films, she always gets nightmares. According to the spychologists, when children get nightmares, it means that their mind is affected seriously. If the fear lasts for a long time, it can cause some problems about their health such as self-suggestion, Of cours, many people think that watching Tv is a pleasant way to relax and spend our free time.We can not deny that. It, however, depends on how much time we spend and what kinds of program we have.
           Secondly, spending too much time on watching TVcan affect on our life. Another disadvantageof watching Tv is that it limits the communication of the members in the family. Nowadays, people are always busy with their work and studying. Everymoring, after getting out of bed parents are in a hurry to drive their children to school and then they go to work. They hardly have time to talk together.Perhaps evenings are the good time for members together sharing about studying or difficult problems that children have at school.However, that everyone spends the valuable period of time on watching TV makes the interaction between parents and children limit. Threfore it makes a distance between them. Sometimes, parents can not understand what their children think because they don't have time to talk with them. Also, children are in interested in the programs on TV.So they do not want to share anything. Day by day, the distance between them becomes bigger and bigger.Besides, watching TV too much can cause people to become dissatisfied with their own life. Real life does not seem as exciting to people as the life of actors on the screen.To many people, TV becomes more real  than reality and they feel their life boring. For instance , on the screen, actors solve the serious problem in a half-hour program. Also, many people get upset or depressed when they can not solve problems in real life as quickly as actors on Tv.If we feel dissastified with our life, surely , we are unhappy.  Many people think that TV programs provides us the information of outside world and make our imaginationmore plentiful.Imagination is really necessary for our life.However, too much imagination will be a disaster.
           In short, the habit of watching TV too much is a trench knife.If we know how to choose carefully with educational programs, it can bring all colorful world to us. Nevertheless,spending too much time on watching TV can affect to our health and life harmfully.