Two Hours of My Life Wasted

Last night my wife, Katie and I were dead tired. So we decided that we wanted to rent a movie, and unplug. She ran out to get one, while I was finishing up a few things, and she brought home a new release. It had several famous names in the cast and it sounded like a good plot. She didn't happen to look at the rating and to be honest we still don't know what it's rated.

You know when you start watching a movie and you think, "hmm, I hope this turns out to be a good one". You commit the first twenty minutes and then you say, "Something good is bound to happen soon". And then 30 minutes rolls around and you start thinking, "Maybe we should just watch something else. But we've already committed to 30 minutes, let's just see what happens"...

Before you know it, it's the end of the movie and you can't believe that you wasted the last two hours of your life. That was our night last night. And to top it off, the movie was so bad, and had so much foul language that we felt almost sick for watching it. I'll admit, I'm still young in my journey to holiness, so the odd swear word in a movie doesn't faze me. This movie was exceptionally bad. I started to wonder how many words the writers had in their vocabulary (not many that didn't start with an F).

We started thinking about all the other movies we've watched that were terrible and a waste of our life. How much time do we spend watching these stupid, meaningless movies. I'm not saying cut movies out altogether, absolutely not. It's nice sometimes to be able to unplug your brain and just chill. It's nice to be able to enjoy a really good, feel good, great, movie.

I'd hazard a guess that one out of every four movies we watch turn out to be bad. So if we cut out 25% of the bad movies we watch, that's 25% more time to do other things, such as spend time together, spend time as a my family, or spend time with God. That sounds much more productive to me.