thinking deep thoughts while healing
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately while recovering from surgery. One topic that kept coming up is how I mentally divide most stuff into “re-enjoyable” and “once and done”. It kept coming up because I kept looking at my shelves and trying to find something to re-enjoy. I say re-enjoy because I’m not just talking about reading here. There’s also watching and playing. Okay mostly watching for the last few weeks. But I have gotten some reading in too. Games not so much because, you know, moving hurts. Much better to just sit and absorb. No thinking or moving involved.
re-enjoyable
The thing is that one of of the reasons I don’t “review” is that I don’t like having to analyze something I’ve just enjoyed. Or not enjoyed as the case may be. I much prefer to wait to see if it’s something I’m going to want to revisit. Again and again. Then maybe I’ll start talking about it. But even talking about it usually isn’t going to happen the first time. I need to know I can re-enjoy it to begin studying why.
Because the again and again is probably the most important aspect to me. I know I definitely give higher ratings to something I re-enjoy a lot over time. Put it this way, creators do not want me rating something I just experienced for the first time. Cause it would have to blow my mind to get a high rating. Just saying.
Should I be more analytical and actually decide what’s good and bad about something the second I enjoy it? Maybe. But I’m not convinced. I’ve learned from experience that doing that simply ruins any enjoyment I did get out of it. So not gonna happen.
once & done
Those are the ones I may get through the first time but it probably ain’t gonna happen again. I enjoyed them once and I’m done. Literally. Or I simply managed to make it to the end once and that’s about it. Enjoyment debatable. That’s not even counting the things that I won’t touch because I know they just aren’t in my comfort zone.
case in point
All this deep thinking came up because of the movie Avatar (you know, the blue guys not the bald kid). I pulled it off the DVD shelf several weeks ago. Maybe even before my surgery. Thinking, hey, I can re-watch this one to fill up some hours. Then it just sat there beside the TV. Every once in a while I’d look at it and wonder, now? Only to find something else to do.
It’s not even that I hated it the first time. There was simply no big urge to watch it again. I was beginning to think it was definitely a “once and done” for me.
However, I finally did re-watch it last week when I was desperate for something different. And was kind of surprised that I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. So maybe it falls slightly higher than “once and done”? Only slightly though because it will probably be years before I can bring myself to watch it again. 😀