Sunday mornings are rough. Waking up with an unbearable headache and a strange stinging feeling in your eyes makes it difficult to get up and go on with the day. The state of exhaustion from the lack of sleep causes the slightest feeling of regret. It was well worth it, though. The night before was filled with lots of "Friends." Rachel, Ross, Chandler, Monica, Phoebe and Joey are the best people a girl could have in her life. If only they were real. Yet another struggle of a person who watches way too much Netflix.
Once upon a time, weekends were about socializing and hanging out with friends (like, the real ones). These days, it's easy to find yourself getting ready with Netflix on in the background, and before you know it, you're hooked. What started out as a casual episode of "Grey's Anatomy" while trying to decide what to wear has quickly escalated into a sob fest of you, Meredith, McDreamy and a pint of Ben and Jerry's. How does this happen every weekend?
It doesn't stop here. That paper you've been "trying" to write has become more and more of a challenge, because you've just spent the last ten hours trying to figure out who "A" is, with no success. In a nutshell, much of the world is in a serious state of procrastination over a simple website. Why might this be? Because it's genius, that's why.
Studies have shown that Netflix users have watched a whopping 42.5 billion hours of content in 2015 alone. 100 million of that is in a single day. With access to thousands of movies and television shows, it is ridiculously easy to find something to get caught up in. Even random documentaries that you never pictured yourself watching; instantly hooked. Personally, I have become very interested in historical documentaries. I may be putting off the list of 50 things that I need to do, but at least I'm learning something, right?
Think about all of the other lively, and probably more important things, that the time could have gone toward. All of the studying that could have been accomplished, all of the loads of laundry that could have been done... and you get distracted watching the season finale of "One Tree Hill."
And all of the papers and articles that could have been written. As a whole, we could be devoting our time to much bigger and better things (Brooke and Lucas, though? Really?).
Netflix holds a very strong influence on our generation, whether we like it or not. It is a brilliant idea, with something for everyone, to ensure that the viewer will always come back for more. The question is, how much will we let it affect our lives? That's a question to be answered at a later time.
...I really hope Peyton and Lucas can work it out.
