In a strange way , I envy couch potatoes. I have always spent my life doing things ( including lots of sports). Now I am getting older I cannot do the things I used to do (in the words of a Leonard Cohen song " I ache in the places where I used to play") and, in the long run, I guess I will spend more time in front of the TV. How horrendous is that ? It will be OK for the couch potatoes because that is all they have known and so life will continue as before.