Liking something but never watching/using/doing it
 

I think a lot of people have this type of thing, but for me it's more extreme. There are a lot of things that I enjoy that I rarely do for whatever reason, even though it's easily possible.

For example, when I was in junior high and high school I really liked the X-files every time I watched it. I probably watched 5 or 6 episodes and thought all of them were excellent. There is no particular reason why I didn't watch more since I really liked those episodes I watched but somehow I didn't ever get around to watching it.

Currently The Office is like that for me. I have seen about 4 or 5 episodes and was cracking up most of the time. I'm sure I even missed out on some running jokes or things that are more funny if you follow it but I still like the show. I have a DVR so there isn't any particular reason for me to not watch this show when I watch other stuff.

There are a few restaurants near my department that I go to quite infrequently and think every time "I should come here more often, this is great." They aren't any more expensive than the other places I go to more often and they are basically just as close.

Anybody else do this or have any insight as to why people do this?

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Laziness?

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I'm sure that's part of it but there seems to be more to it. Take the restaurant example. Say for lunch I go to Subway a lot. There are other options the same distance away that I prefer every time I go to them, but yet when I'm thinking about where to eat I'll usually think Subway first unless something reminds me about one of the other places.

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I was like this with every tv show. Until they came out with DVR and shows on DVD. And HBO on demand. And iTunes where I can now buy the shows.

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Fear?

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Having the attention span of a gnat?

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Apathy

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Self-pity?

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I like Jessica Alba but for some bizar reason I never did her.

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I'm with Jared.

There are movies I've bought because I really like the movie, yet have never watched. There are places I've gone that I really enjoyed, yet never gone back. Hell, there are even girls I never got around to calling again even though I liked them well enough.

Why?
[censored], I don't know.

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I do the same thing and I really think it's that I don't care enough. It takes a lot for me to care about a decision - when it comes to what/where I eat on a given day or what I'm watching on TV I usually just don't care and don't think about it much. The reason I do many of the things that I do is part habit part laziness, the reason I don't do things I would like more is apathy. I know my life would be better if I took more time and put more thought into little decisions and I think that's true for a lot of people.

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I have clothes that I really like but never wear. The only explanation I can come up with is that I'm mentally saving them for some special occasion. So the clothes that I wear most frequently are generally the clothes that I'm not crazy about.

Same thing with wine. I've got a small wine fridge full of wine, some of it pretty good, some of it run-of-the-mill. When I get a bottle of wine, I usually don't even consider getting a good bottle. Apparently I'm saving them for some undefined occasion. The wine critics from the Wall Street Journal invented "Open That Bottle Night" to address the fact that lots of people do the same thing. So at least I'm not the only idiot out there.

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Sex

Swimming

Riding scooters

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Laziness?

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Too lazy to watch a tv show? That's bad.

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My New Year's Resolution for 2003 was to eat more JellyBelly brand jellybeans than I had in 2002.



I failed.

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My New Year's Resolution for 2003 was to eat more JellyBelly brand jellybeans than I had in 2002.



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jellybelly's suck. give me the almost egg-sized hard ones from walgreens all day long.

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cocaine

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I love film, and I love collecting DVDs. I'd estimate that somwhere between 10-20% of my movies are still in the shrinkwrap.

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Yes, I have this awesome NBA Jersey of Portlands (black away team) Darius Miles, but I would never wear it to anywhere because I would get a lot of attention in public that I really don't want.

Also, with the show Scrubs I feel that way. I never knew being a doctor was so easy!

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Leaving the house.