Cheryl's Life

My dear mom

My mom loves to watch TV. She has all of the cable channels and watches TV in most of her spare time. She often times will wake up in the middle of the night and watch TV until she can fall back asleep. I would prefer for her to have an active social life but I do like knowing she's safe at home in front of the tube. My mom will occasionally call to inform me of a show coming on that I should watch or check to see if I've seen a show. Sometimes, I'll call her to advise of an upcoming program that I think she will enjoy. There is really no specific type of programming she likes. My mom will watch just about anything.

So, yesterday I called her to chat and catch up. We do not always talk about TV but yesterday we did (unfortunately). She proceeded to tell me about some documentaries she recently saw on The Learning Channel. One was called "God Sleeps in Rwanda" or something like that. The other was a documentary on the Holocaust. She was going on and on about how people are so cruel and how she can't believe the suffering and how she could not understand how people can treat others that way...

Then she told me about this one scene. Our conversation went like this:

mom, "there was this one scene where this tiny toddler was starving to death and curled up on the ground in a fetal position. She was so small and she could barely move. Guess what was behind her?"

I was hesitant because I knew it was going to be something awful and I was not enjoying this conversation. I answered, "what?"

Mom, "a huge buzzard waiting to eat her...."

Me, "mom, why did you watch that show? It's awful!

Mom, "because it's educational"

Me, "well, were you even able to sleep that night?"

Mom, "no! I have not been able to sleep all week!"

me, "see!!!!"

So, that was pretty much the end of our chat. I now cannot get the scene out of my head and I never even saw the documentary.

posted by CherylRenee @ 7:31 PM