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Almost skipped a 12 second video at 2am in my kitchen, and it made me rethink my whole job
It was last Tuesday around 2am and I was half asleep scrolling on my phone in the kitchen while waiting for my tea to cool. This 12 second clip of a guy in Osaka fixing a tiny shoe for a kid popped up and I almost swiped past it because it looked boring. Something made me watch it twice and I just sat there thinking about how I quit my office job 8 months ago to do furniture repair and thought I was behind everyone my age. I texted my old coworker Dana at 2:15am and she replied with 'that is literally what you do all day, why are you spiraling' which honestly helped. Curious if anyone else has had a random short clip hit them way harder than some 40 minute documentary.
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davis.noah15d ago
My buddy had something like that happen with a 20 second clip of some old guy in Italy making pasta. He watched it like five times at 1am and then called me all weirded out because he felt like he was wasting his life doing spreadsheets. The difference for him was that the video was just some guy being happy with a simple thing, and he couldn't remember the last time he felt that way about his own day. He didn't quit or anything crazy, but he started cooking on weekends and stopped checking his work email after 8pm. Kind of wild how a tiny clip can do that when a whole documentary just feels like homework.
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brookereed15d ago
Ah yes, the classic 1am pasta video spiral. Next thing you know he's growing his own tomatoes and judging people who buy jar sauce. But for real, it's funny how a 20 second clip of some guy kneading dough hits harder than a whole documentary about the meaning of life. A documentary feels like homework because someone is telling you what to feel for two hours. That pasta guy says nothing and somehow says everything just by being happy with flour and water. Your buddy didn't quit his job, he just stopped letting his inbox own his nights. Maybe the trick is we don't need a big life overhaul, we just need one small thing that's actually ours.
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