Enjoying television

Several weeks ago I mentioned not wanting to miss out on genuinely engaging television dramas. I was just thinking how it might be time to rewatch Hannibal (2013), at least to start doing so as I think the seasons decline so I would be tempted to stop after even maybe just the first. To take another serial killer drama I might also rewatch Dexter (2006), at least the first couple of seasons as it too declines. I was thinking about this rewatching. I usually wait at least a few years until I have forgotten enough.

With eating favorite foods clearly I can be eager to repeat pleasurable experiences. I guess that is also what my watching shows again is about: I would not miss out because I have already seen the shows but I enjoy watching them and I want to enjoy myself so I watch them again. Perhaps therefore I ought to be careful indeed about my time watching television lest I overly indulge unproductive hedonist tendencies. Some of my other possibly superfluous television watching is initiated by my family: I join in partly as a means to interact with them.

Boundaries on social interaction

I was thinking about how I welcome some social interaction. For example, with watching particular television shows I have been happy to do so among a group of the like-minded. Similarly, one of my favorite activities in working for a defense contractor was that of traveling to military bases to meet the personnel and learn about their work.

On the other hand, one thing that attracts me to moving back to the US is being able to afford a house on a large plot of land: I can be distant from neighbors and withdraw to an environment that includes only my immediate family.

It is as if I like social interaction but can take only so much of it: I want a quiet private space in my life to which I can frequently withdraw.