My wife and I did a lot of lazing around watching TV this weekend. In fact we've done quite a lot of it over the last couple of months with her being pretty much grounded due to recovering from surgery. Over that time we've watched an awful lot of episodes of various TV programs. Some of it was done in bed when my wife could do nothing but lay in bed and some of it reclining on our big sectional sofa we got a couple of years ago. Still in all of it we spend lots of time together being entertained (to varying degrees of success depending on how many actors there are in the program that annoy us) and pretty much ignoring the rest of the world around us.
Other than interruptions we can't ignore (the call for food from rumbly stomachs, a cat demanding attention, the need to bathe and poop etc.) we could just sit/lay together, occasionally saying something to each other and take in what we were watching. It occurred to me while doing that that where we do it really doesn't matter. The important part is that we are doing it together sharing in the experience. There are occasional programs where only one of us will watch it either due to the other not liking it or one of us doing something else but for the most part we watch everything together. If I could find a place somewhere in the world where we could do that in peace, our own little hideaway where we can be left alone, the experience would be so much better. When you get involved in something you don't want anything else to get in the way. My challenge now is to make this place a reality. To get us to a house and place where we can do this. It seems to be our biggest hope and dream at the moment and once we achieve that life will be that much better.
Seems strange that amusing ourselves with things that aren't real allows us to have a better real life. For us it is how we want to live I think, have nothing more real than being with each other (plus various cats and a hamster :) ) and give a big eff you to the rest of the world.
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