Today my friend Emerson’s sister Caitlin wrote on Facebook- “After watching another documentary on netflix I’m left thinking : Wow. I am such a boring person.”
My response- I like to watch documentaries in the theater. It costs more but makes me feel less lonely. It’s a question of balancing feelings. For example, my blood pressure medication makes me feel slightly less anxious to go out in public dressed in a cat-fur-covered fleece sweat suit. It’s not for everybody, but for me, that’s the value in paying for the blood pressure medication, which comes from Delhi, India. I’m typing this in a cat-fur-covered fleece sweat suit, waiting for a documentary on 80s British reggae to begin. The Story of Lover’s Rock, directed by Menelik Shabazz, now playing at Facets Cinema. My hair is slicked to the side except for a noticeable cowlick. There is one other guy in the theater.
That doc sounds awesome and that sweatsuit must be divine. I realize now that my status had an unintended double meaning – not that the act of documentary watching makes me boring but that I felt boring after seeing someone have an epic adventure / display such immense character… while I watch Netflix at home in a much less glamorous sweatsuit. Thanks for using my update as inspiration / making me laugh out loud & feel less boring!
Wishing the 3rdarm a light-filled night, less cat hair, and definitely, 100% less blood pressure medication.