What Did We Do Before Netflix?

We certainly had more patience...

Netflix used to be that mysterious company spoken about on the financial reports. Netflix gaining viewers, making money and becoming a new word in the dictionary. Abstract to us until we became part of their family too. And thank goodness we did as it led us within days of joining to the documentary-What The Health- and thus started us on our plant-based journey.

They have such a selection of movies, documentaries and series that one doesn't know where to start...until one does. With one foul swoop they have slashed that irritating seven days between episodes. If one chooses to, one could watch a whole series in one go. What took us ten years back in the day, could be reduced to a few weeks. Remember Dallas, back in the 80's? How where we glued to it from Tuesday to Tuesday and from the 80's till the 90's! Yes, in South Africa it was aired every Tuesday night. Dinner parties were planned around it and restaurants would close early.

Netflix and its instant gratification has most of us hooked ( try going off it and tell me how! ). Perhaps it is so popular with the younger crowd because they don't have to wait for anything. It might be more that they don't want to wait for anything. Does the online generation even know how to be patient? Can't really blame them as they have been fed and led by the online merchants, assisted by technology to have everything and anything they want with only one touch of a button. When you sit back and think about this, a cold shiver of fear is appropriate.

Seeing that Bob and I come from a time before online, gosh, before the internet was even invented, I hope that we can appreciate Netflix for what it is- a video shop- yet not lose sight of the pleasure and luxury of having to wait for a while before a treat is had.

Biggi