I was thinking how there's healthy and then unhealthy escapism. A break versus avoidance.
That aside, in support of you, I can't see how building with Legos for part of the evening is any 'worse' - less mature, sophisticated, or what have you - than watching some sitcom or YouTube slop. Certainly not sad in either sense of the word. You are actively feeding your creativity and maybe processing out life stuff (play therapy is a thing, even for adults). How cool is that?
I recently watched it for the first time and loved it. The disjointed flow of it worked for me as a mechanism to immerse in an experience of a person's life. Like a speedrun. The themes - including never really launching into life, seeking to but never really connecting with others except post-facto, struggling to understand and metabolize losses, breaching out of the self - all resonated with me so that helped.
If I zoom in on a map, all the numbers are there. But the search function only suggests roads, despite the number being included in the search field and existing on the map. I'm in a major u.s. metropolitan area
When my brain has a song on repeat, I eventually realize that it's related to something going on in my life. It's uncanny to have one part of the brain talking to another like that
Glad to hear others still make mixes (I still call them mixtapes, because otherwise I feel like I'm claiming to be doing something fancier than I am). My last project was a story told in 16 mixtapes. So definitely someone who picks a theme when I make them
Intelligence is a multiplicity and usually in service of ego/inherited worldview
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