It IS bizarre when you put it like that. Why are we so busy watching other people live. Hell, if we were watching them watch TV etc we'd lose interest. Thankfully I opt not to have television but I still have the internet. I actually only spent time online when I absolutely had to when I didn't have my laptop. Hmmm.. might need to rid myself of the laptop. Why do I need so many electronic devices??

Weird you should bring this up. Since I got sober I lost all desire to watch anything, especially fiction. When I read it's biographies or auto biographies and when I watch TV it's the history channel or cooking shows...LOL.

Of all you mentioned, I'm only guilty of a couple of reality shows. I watch Survivor & Big Brother and I've recently started watching Kirstie Alley's Big Life and it's funny as HELL! She actually even inspires me to GOYA! I am more addicted to true crime shows like Dateline & 48 Hours. I also watch a lot of Law & Order SVU and NCIS and Criminal Minds.

What's funny is that after I've spent too much time with those shows, I have a hard time distinguishing life from fiction! lol! Someone will mention something and it will remind me of something I saw and I'll start to tell them and then think....."hmmmmm did that really happen, was that in the news or was that on NCIS?" lol!

This is a GREAT topic. Reality shows have almost replaced Soap Opera's. When I was young ALL my Aunts had their favorite soap. Made me want to drink coffee. One day I'm sitting there saying "what the heck am I'm doing watching someone elses life and I should be living my own!!!"

Unfortunately today I do get caught up on the real life "soaps" here on DS and start thinking the same thing!!! sheesh...the more things change the more they stay the same. It takes energy to get off the computer or sofa and GOYA!!!! G O D...give me energy. Slept with the grand-daughters last nite but you never sleep between two wriggling, kicking littleones...I need a nap!

I watch documentaries, tru tv, sci-fi or sports. alot of sports. I should of played more and watched less. In fact to this day if you got a sandlot game going I'd play until I could not drag my butt around anymore and collapsed.
However, not too many sandlots out there anymore and noone's advertising for a 50 year old sand lot pass rusher! LOL

Before I found alcohol, drugs and tobacco. Exercise via sandlot sports and just plain life was my fix. My dopamine chase, I just didn't know it.
In fact the irony of my life is that I love the outdoors, fishing, hunting, just being in the woods or on the water, tennis, running, etc. And yet my addictions have kept me from doing those things or at least from doing them well!
First booze, then drugs, then tobacco, now food! I continue to be somewhat unable to even be who I am!!

Whoa, sorry, too deep for Saturday!