Tell Me To Do Something, and I'll Do It... Just Six Years Latter

I've always been the type of person who doesn't like to do things just because everyone else is doing it. But at the same time I very much like to do certain things because everyone else is doing it. So here I am constantly in a loop of not wanting to do things and then caving in, and I totally end up doing it. Not illegal things. Like drugs or something like that, for those kinds of things I can keep a firm stand but it's for trivial things like watching a TV show or movie, or listening to music, or checking out web sites. Granted these things are really minor, but sometimes I just feel so... I don't know... Like a not-wanna-be-follower or something along those lines.

My most recent experience of this has been in regards to the TV show "The Office". Everyone has said how much they enjoy the show, and how it was so funny, and how everything about it was so awesome. So here I am with everyone telling me I should watch it and that I'd just absolutely love it. But what do I do? I don't watch it of course. I mean first of all how can I? I can't just watch a show from the middle of a serries and expect to get all the inside jokes of the show. And did I mention that I hate being one of those people who just like things because everyone else likes it. So in conclusion I decided that I just didn't and wouldn't ever get "The Office" and I'd just let everyone enjoy their show that I just would never watch.

But after all these years of friends telling me I should watch it, when I finally get me some Netflix instant play on my iPad, I cave in and watch from the beginning. I mean really all shows should be watched from the beginning to get the full effect of the program. So I watched the first few episodes and surprise, surprise... I'm in absolute love with the show. Like everything else in my life, I began obsessively watching episodes like crazy. I mean it was all right there for the watching, so I watched them. I watched them all in like a week and a half.

And now I'm one of those people who watch "The Office". I never thought I was going to be one of those people, but I turned into one of those people. And now that I'm watching this show all I can talk about are Office references, and because I'm so behind everyone watching "The Office" no one really gets the references, they just kind of smile and nod and look at me like I'm a crazy person.

I suppose this is what I get for hopping on "The Office" train so late. Perhaps the lesson here should be to just try things before I make absolute decisions that I'm totally not going to keep.