/lit/ - Literature

>>16769395
>This is a new mental disease
No, it's not. Look up "decision fatigue", "analysis paralysis", "overchoice"...

>why do I make lists of things to do but never wnat to do them?
I can completely relate to what you mean. The root cause is having too much choice. Compare it with TV: whatever is on, you have to watch. You get no control over it, you don't have to make a choice, it has already been made for you, there's no fear of missing out because of a choice *you* made.

In fact, having someone else make the choice for you may actually introduce you to things you wouldn't expect to like: /tv/ has a livestream channel (google "cytube tv-movienight"), right now they're showing western movies. If you asked me, "would you watch a western?", I'd likely say no, but if it was "already on", then chances are that I'd give it a try.

I think it plays out like this in your head:
>When you have to make a decision yourself, you feel like you have to choose wisely, or you will have wasted your time.
>In order to make the best possible decision, you start overthinking what you pick, or maybe start looking at new possible choices, thus further increasing your cognitive load.
>At the same time, you don't think you can walk away from making a decision, since you've already sunk so much time into trying to pick something to watch.
>Eventually, you get tired, and drop the matter altogether. Your list has probably gotten longer, but you have made no progress on the items it already has.

The only way to get over this is to start reading/watching. Take your lists, and pick an item at random, and make yourself watch/read that. Make sure that you have as little input in the decision as possible: point at the screen with your eyes closed, ask someone else to pick one item at random, or even better, use a computer program, like https://onlinerandomtools.com/pick-random-item

You have to let "someone else" decide, because then you won't be able to feel guilty for choosing poorly, you just followed an outside suggestion. When you decide to watch a movie, you think, "I will have to watch this for the next two hours", whereas when someone else makes the decision, you think to yourself, "I can stop watching this after 5 minutes if I don't like it".

Most importantly, don't try to neurotically second-guess yourself, go on GoodReads or MAL to check reviews, just roll with it, just do it. When you start reading/watching, don't think, "oh, this is boring, I could be reading something else", give it a chance, turn your brain off (in a good sense).

>>16727006
If it ends with the medical personnel being late for the return trip, and they return to their normal size inside his body, and now he's a grotesque amalgamation of half a dozen people in a nearly-amorphous body that is being stretched to impossible lengths, count me in.