(June 13, 2023 at 11:47 am)Fireball Wrote: Empty head is right. We live in a culture that pushes "entertain me!", and people grow to expect that. If one is bored they have only themselves to blame. I read books, carve and work wood and do a bit of copper smithing (but that not in awhile). I also surf the net. I watch near zero TV. Don't need that, it's mostly drivel.
Absolutely. Even though I consume a lot of content, if ever I run out of Youtube videos to watch right now, I'm never "stuck" or stopped just wandering listlessly through the site. I either have the thought, "Oh! Let me look this topic up!" which is a topic or idea I am interested in or I close the app and do something else for a while. And that "something else" is a bottomless ocean to draw from.
I go through cycles and phases with certain things. Sometimes for 2 months I'll be hot on tv, binging episodes one right after another. Then all of a sudden, I can't touch tv. You couldn't force me to sit down to watch something with you during the off times. But even if I was forced to watch tv and for some reason could not change the channel or leave(maybe we're visiting the grandparents and this is what is what they're doing at the moment), I either start meta watching the show that is on, picking apart production and acting, making up games where I count how many times actors do X, or I just check out entirely, disappearing into my head with my own story and characters.
