How Covid changed me : Streaming services addiction

Greetings my friends who decided to click on this post.

I want first of all to share my history with my streaming services, good and bad times etc.

My interest in streaming services, cable tv and other sources of visual entertainment started back in high school when I was introduced to netflix by a friend, before that I used to watch anything on free to air tv or something that we downloaded, etc.

It grew on me, and it became like a regular habit that every year I join netflix for a month to catch on the good picks and spend the rest of the year studying, life and you know.

till covid hits, and STARZPLAY joined my life.

I Got an offer for starzplay due to our landline sub for like 2$ or a dollar and half per month, instead of 5/4$  and it was INSANE the content they had was superb!! buffy, supernatural, old movies, new movies, horror nights, crime docs, everything I could ever want!!

then, Prime hit the home, my phone company gave us 6 months FREE in prime video and honestly I thought It was free, but in reality i paid with my time and mental health and after the 6 months ended the offer give 2$ sub for the whole prime services!!!! it was crazy.

finally and not really finally, OSN happened, OSN is a cable tv in Egypt  that shares shows from HBO, paramount, wb, etc, it was my life long dream to join osn for the ltc or  disney channel lol so you can imagine me as an adult when i heard that they give 50% offer over not only the cable tv but also the streaming services that equals HBO in the middle east!

I always got good offers, offers that makes you not really pay a lot, but somehow i lost myself in the process.

Okay don't get me wrong, I'm not a maniac over streaming services and hit shows, it's just life happens, depression happens and it isolates you from everyone, and then you find yourself binge this show, that movie go on and on till a year is gone, and you've done nothing really when it comes to self improvement, you are not the person you want, your relationship is awful with the people that matter to you, it's just you, your lap top and your show.

I do blame no one but me over my character development, but i just say that being merged into the world of pop culture, tiktok, social media and so on within the covid low key made me avoid lots of good potentials in life.

that all happened starting from covid 2020 till last week, when the thought of setting myself free, explore life instead of videos, ran through my vains, but guess what happened?

Selena Gomez gave people two free months in APPLE TV+!!!!!! 

it's just like the godfather 3 quote " whenever i try to get out, they pulled me back in".

things got pretty awful that i made a list of all the shows i want to watch in every streaming service and they are over 100!! it's scary.. too scary.

update today:

today i to a new offer on starzplay for 50 cents per month instead of 5$! and then the thought of setting myself free came to my mind

what if i unsubscribed them all.

what if i just let myself go on with my life instead of avoid everything I'm going through?

and here the plan came>

1- I'm officially over starzplay.

2- on nov 15 I'm no way resubsribing to amazon prime

3- I'm going to continue with osn till the contact is over, and will not renew it.

4- I'll not push myself over apple tv, i will only watch the things I'm truly interested in.

things I'm doing instead:

1- read the books i bought from the book fair and saved in internet archive.

2- write and learn more things.

3- set up a day routine, monthly schedule

4- probably volunteer or start a history project.

this was my journey, and it's not really over yet but i wanted to share this part of me here, so that i could meet it again two years from now and see if i really did something that is me or I'm still on the same ground.

thank you for reading,

have a good day.