Thursday, 22 April 2010 09:58 am
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deckardcanineOn Sunday I stayed up late to finish a movie so I could get the next Netflix delivery on Wednesday, which would leave time for another on Saturday. Alas, either Netflix or the USPS has gotten less consistent about this lately, so I'm getting one today.
I felt like griping about the slowness, but then I realized how spoiled that would sound. So what if I get one disc this week instead of two? That'll become the norm if they implement their idea to cut Saturday deliveries. Besides, I still have plenty of streaming videos to watch -- not to mention other suitable ways to pass the time. (As it happens, I didn't even make time for a TV episode yesterday.) There's no need to race, especially when I'm still getting more than my money's worth.
Today I read of an ordinary man striving for a top-10,000 films list. I thought, "What a fool. That's way too long a list to sustain the interest of friends and family, let alone strangers." But then I realized that I could easily have become this man in the future. The goal would serve less as a service to others and more as a means of adding order to my obsession.
Or should I say "addiction"? As I heard in a recent audioconference, addiction is less about what you do and more about what you don't as a result. Are my viewings getting in the way of things that should matter more strongly? I'm not sure, but it couldn't hurt to cut back.
To be fair, watching movies on Sunday with Dad and sometimes Mom is good for family time. It's the rest of the week that sees mere leisure masquerading as self-enrichment.
I felt like griping about the slowness, but then I realized how spoiled that would sound. So what if I get one disc this week instead of two? That'll become the norm if they implement their idea to cut Saturday deliveries. Besides, I still have plenty of streaming videos to watch -- not to mention other suitable ways to pass the time. (As it happens, I didn't even make time for a TV episode yesterday.) There's no need to race, especially when I'm still getting more than my money's worth.
Today I read of an ordinary man striving for a top-10,000 films list. I thought, "What a fool. That's way too long a list to sustain the interest of friends and family, let alone strangers." But then I realized that I could easily have become this man in the future. The goal would serve less as a service to others and more as a means of adding order to my obsession.
Or should I say "addiction"? As I heard in a recent audioconference, addiction is less about what you do and more about what you don't as a result. Are my viewings getting in the way of things that should matter more strongly? I'm not sure, but it couldn't hurt to cut back.
To be fair, watching movies on Sunday with Dad and sometimes Mom is good for family time. It's the rest of the week that sees mere leisure masquerading as self-enrichment.