I used to be a Medic and Firefighter-- in short I was an adrenaline junkie. And now I’m old and retired. And my body is bent and currently a bit broken. I seek to learn how to be dull.
Despite the enjoyment of watching the hummingbirds at my feeders and the light gardening I do. I still think I could become even more satisfied with my dullness.
Guide me to complete dullness!
Video games?
I do not have the patience or perhaps even attention span to play video games.
What you don’t have is interest. There are games for everyone these days if you care to look.
You are right, I don’t have much of an interest. I’ve tried them off and on over the years. And outside of the odd game of solitaire in KPatience, I just can seem to focus on them. There are too many other things to stimulate my mind. Perhaps it’s because I come from a time long before computer games were a thing.
I do appreciate your concern and advice though. You are most definitely a fine person.
I used to be obsessed with video games but slowly lost interest in them in my 40’s. It might be an attention span issue, but the novelty of most things is a lot less at my age because I’ve already played out the mechanics that interested me… kind of similar with movies, too, things get a bit too predictable. Last truly surprising thing i saw was an anime with naked dumb giant cannibals; then there was a movie about a teenage cello player deciding if she wanted live or die; surprises are few and far between, though there is still pleasure in a well-told story.
I hear you about the movies. It took awhile, but I came to a realization that Hollywood hasn’t had a new idea since the advent of the talkies. They just recycle and rehash the same old same old. Instead of horse operas we now have space operas. Now, they aren’t even bothering to try. They just stack sequels and reboots 100 feet high and just expect us to like it.
As far as tastes and hobbies, things change as we get older. It’s a natural part of aging. Don’t be sad you don’t really game anymore. But rather enjoy those memories of the fun you had when you did game. And pursue those things that hold your interest now with the same zeal!
That’s not hollywood, that’s humanity. We only have so much going on in our personalities, and whatever stories we tell have to to be relatable somehow. It would be perfectly possible to come up with a novel story, but it probably wouldn’t have any emotional resonance.
Horse opera to space opera is pretty hilarious, though. I’m spending more time with some older music–from the 1940s and 1950s. I firmly believe that 90% of everything is crap, and always has been; looking through the past is an almost automated “best of” filter.
That said, modern industry has some of its own tragic quirks; for instance, Netflix demanding its writers create shows assuming that people are only half paying attention (second screen viewing), or now AI’s ability to simulate music, at a time when the art of learning ANY skill, much less a musical instrument, is dying…
Thanks for the kind words about gaming; it was a struggle, because I loved how involved I got with it, but I’ve accepted it’s probably not going to happen again and it’s time to move on to other hobbies.
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