6 Cents on Defining Sanity

Well, it’s nice to know that I am not the only weird person in this family- I also indulge in the same media over and over again.  Almost everyone knew freshman thru junior year in college that I fell asleep watching The Princes Bride every night.  Senior year, it was rare that people would walk into my apartment and Twilight would not be playing (because that is such a good movie).  But even all through childhood, I watched the same movies over and over again (Pocahontas, The Lion King, An American Tail, and pretty much all other children’s movies).  My father used to bellow at me about this obsessive habit of mine (even as recently as a couple years ago when I couldn’t stop watching Guys and Dolls- I love Marlon Brando).  

4 Cents on Defining Sanity?

I, too, tend to watch the same films over and over again and have often wondered why something with which I’m intimately familiar holds more interest for me than something new and potentially wonderful.  Wouldn't new and exciting always trump knows-every-line-by-heart?

2 Cents on Defining Sanity?

They, who are often liars, say that doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Hopefully, this only applies if you are expecting different results. So ... surely that can't apply to watching the same movies over and over again, or can it? I'm not really expecting different results, am I? And I'm not really insane because I watch the same movie over and over again, or could I be?