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Originally Posted by LostHisMarbles
Yeah, given the effort, we all find our way eventually, make it all fit 
For me it's music; books, they used to be first, but give it a good combo of education, cultivation, critical thinking, experience and having read thousands, i'm finding fewer and fewer worth my time. Up to a point, now, where it's literally bliss, picking an unread one up and not throwing it away 20, 30 pages in. Ultra rare. |
Funnily enough, I've not found it to be like that for me. I still enjoy a lot of books, but then again the objective quality of writing has never mattered to me. I actively avoid anything considered even remotely "literary" or "classic", because it's almost never something I like or enjoy. I just want simple escapism, a good story that takes me away from myself, that's all.
But then I'm not an educated or cultivated person (unfinished high school is the pinnacle of my education), so I can consume lowbrow genre fiction and take genuine pleasure it
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I rarely watch movies or TV, but not so much because there is little good stuff out there, but because I've always preferred pure text to any kind of visual media. And I don't listen to music at all; I have chronic depression and music makes it worse. I feel better when I don't listen to it (and no, it doesn't matter what kind of music - any kind).