Recommendations are fun!

I don't know when I first realized there are too many interesting things in the world to do them all. It was probably fairly young. There's always a new book, new movie, new game, new destination, new fact, new song, new something. Even if I were to dedicate my whole life to one topic I would never be able to experience the totality of it.

So I like to share.

For example, I started to watch Alone. 

I would die of old age before I could watch every show ever made much less every episode of every show. I know I could find shows I like, but I prefer to watch shows I like and that I know I have people in my life I can share the experience with.

Nana and Pop enjoy Alone. That was enough to make me consider watching it. I mentioned it to Carrie, but she didn't bite. However, my co-teacher and I were talking with the class one day and he started to talk about it. A kid said something about it, too, and now I had enough reasons to try it out.

I enjoyed the show and then I also enjoyed bringing up I'd watched it in class and to my parents. Why? Because it was fun and it helped connect me more to some people around me. Watching the same TV show as someone isn't enough to build a connection on it's own, but listening and showing an interest in what you hear can.

Turns out, I liked it. That doesn't always happen.

I look at it as being efficient. Why only watch something I like? I like a wide variety of things and if I can watch something, enjoy it, and share it with someone else why not? 

I don't only watch shows based on recommendations, but it helps! There will still be things that draw me in on their own, but since I'm not big on TV and Carrie frequently wields the remote....

Some of my earliest thoughts on this go back to being a kid and figuring out if I wanted to invite a friend over or not. I could play whatever video game I wanted by myself....or I could invite someone over and lose some control of the situation, but maybe that loss of getting my way would be replaced with more fun, new ideas, and great memories. It was a risk. And sometimes I didn't want to take it or I already knew exactly what I wanted to do! But when a risk is taken there's that chance for an increased reward.

I could go on, but the backlog must be defeated!