Anyway, I always get a little annoyed when
I'm hanging out with people, having a good time conversing and all, and someone
suggests we watch a movie. We were
having fun talking—interacting!—and now you wanna sit in silence with each other! What's the goddamn point of us
hanging out if we're just gonna do that?
And then I remember it's not all
about me. (Okay, it actually is, but I'm
a bad solipsist. I can't convince myself the people around me are all
projections of my overconscious mind. Despite my attempts to put you all in
line and like all the same shit I do, you/I obstinately refuse to make it so.)
I remind myself that people—dumb people—like movies a lot, and get a great deal
of pleasure sitting around in silence with a bunch of other people—not really
sharing anything, no, just watching.
Blech. Anyway, I do it sometimes.
I'm a saint, really.
Zach, I completely agree with you. I enjoy watching movies if it's something I am doing by myself. And occasionally I like to watch a movie with someone I spend loads of time with anyway, as a change of pace. But I simply do not understand, most of the time, when people prefer to watch movies over interacting in some way. Honestly, I think it's mostly about folks' fear of interacting, intimacy, vulnerability, and stuff. Not that you even have to be vulnerable when you're interacting, but it seems to me like that's what's happening.
ReplyDeleteGood points, Tamie. I agree entirely. And thanks; it's nice to know I'm not the only one who feels the way I do.
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