There are a lot of things that are addictive as well as harmful to us, but we still do them anyway, ranging from the pleasures of the flesh to things that we put in our mouths as food and drinks. My brother taught me how to watch movies. I could remember how watching movies became something I did for a long stretch of time. We could sit all day watching movies and would only get up to eat. Sometimes, we would refuse food just because we didn’t want to miss any part of the movies.
My dad was someone that loves movies too, we didn’t grow up with a satellite tv in our house, so we watch movies that my father will buy for us which we played on the video recorder, and on Sundays, there was a station then that will usually play Indian movies every morning and every night, American movies, when our father was not present, we all walk up to watch movies even when we had school the next day, our mother will be asleep and will not notice. As my brother gained admission to the university, he was gifted a laptop. At the end of every semester, he comes back with a variety of movies for us to view, this was when my addiction to watching movies became worst, I remembered finishing the first and second season of the game of thrones in a stretch, not getting up to eat, drink, ease my myself or even sleep until I was done watching the movie.
While at school, I will prioritise watching movies, even when I have exams to prepare for. At the time, I was at university and had a smartphone that helped me watch these movies. For every movie that came out, I made sure I watched it as soon as it was released, even though I knew that watching movies took up most of my time at school, left me with little time for myself and my studies, and was a worthy thief of my time, as I was pleased, entertained and sometimes educated from watching these movies.
The bad aspect about this was that it basically made me have a misplaced priority, prioritising entertainment and pleasure above my studies in school, which affected my studies well and the outcome of which was that it made my performance in school below average, because I didn’t have a lot of time to study, I mostly ended up with poor grades and it went on and on without me adjusting. To date, I sometimes find myself going back to the habit of watching movies for hours, refusing to do anything other than just sit down and watch movies, which gave me the name “Movie lord” in the compound house I reside in. As much as we understand that some of these things are bad for our well-being, we must try to limit these things to prevent ourselves from the negative impacts of these things.
Thank you for reading. My name is@rishagamo, and this is my response to the Hive Learners weekly Featured Content Week 205 Episode 01: “IS IT THAT BAD?”
