A Hundred Days Of This - Day 70

After imploring my mother to watch Dhurandhar several times she said something that triggered a train thought that I cannot seem to shake off now. She said she does not feel like watching movies anymore. I felt the same way since the past week. There a lot of new releases on the OTT platforms but I just cannot bring myself to watch anything.

Is this a sign from the brain that long format content is tiring to sit through? That is pretty scary. I am not able to read a book for more than 30 minutes too. Please do not tell me that is the effect of doomscrolling and instant dopamine binging.

Earlier I used to finish watch an entire season of Bones or Dexter over the weekend but now I am not able to watch 2nd episode of Demon Slayer without picking up my phone to see what is new on Instagram. Oh boy, it feels like I am living through one of those Black Mirror tales now. Is it all happening inside my head or do you feel the same too? If so, how do we battle this? 

The other day I heard someone explaining how the 90s kids will be the last generation to have high tolerance for failure and will come up with better survival strategies in the time of crisis because we all grew up with video games that had limited lives for a player and had tried to optimise on the satisfaction in a short span of time that we were allowed to play games. That is an interesting theory. Can we come up with cheat codes to escape the Instagram reels too? Please?

And that's Day 70 for you!

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