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>>16362993
>What's wrong with liking the same thing all the time?
It's not "wrong", but it is self-defeating. We change ourselves through the things we experience and the meaning we assign to those experiences, and we are always telling the story of our own life. Stories have the power to transform us. When you find the right story you're a different person by the time you finish reading it. At that point you are ready to move on and "act out" that change so to speak. If you keep retreading that same path over and over again, trying to relive that experience, it will lose that transformative power. You just keep coming back for your shot of catharthis.

Now you might respond by saying "it's just entertainment, stop taking it so seriously.", but that's backwards. You are reducing storytelling to entertainment by not taking it seriously enough.