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That existential crisis when you finish something

Jamesmac

Has anyone ever felt that? Like, when you've finished watching the entire series of a TV show, or beat a video game you were heavily invested in? That feeling of "Ok, so, what now?". Fееling lost and without direction after this one thing you used to look forward to in you spare time no longer gives you anything to look forward to.

Do you perhaps try to recapture what that thing gave you by looking for something similar? Or do you just go back and do it all over again>

  • Only happens when I watch very good things or beat very good video games.

    Last time with a video game, I want to say Trials of Mana.

    Last time with media, watching Akira Hokuto V Shinobu Kandori at AJW Dreamslam 1993 was an out of body experience. I didn't watch wrestling for about 4 days or so, as I knew nothing would top how incredible that match was. 

  • in reply to Marianne72

    Sometimes they re film things too. I saw Bergerac was on and put it on and was puzzled when I saw a mobile phone then realized the person who said they were Bergerac was not him. It was billed as the first one, but he was played by John Nettles, so I gave up on that.

  • Happens to me sometimes. It's very bittersweet.

    One of my COVID projects was building a classic gaming arcade, so I've went back and revisited a lot of games I played growing up, including ones I never finished. I've had a great time, but always feel a bit sad at the end.

    There's times I wish I could erase it from my memory and experience it for the first time again!

  • I tend to start over again. I have been watching the same show on Disney plus for over a year now. Can't seem to bring myself to watch anything else and when I think of watching anything else j tend to panic 

  • I've experienced this, with favourite TV series or authors. I 'get over it' by re-reading the same books and re-watching programmes. But, over time, I also get tired of things that formerly interested or excited me. When programmes are reissued, I often don't watch them. But also I think that your interests change and you look for new things. As   writes, you learn more by widening your scope; but this doesn't mean giving up things you want to repeat.

  • Jamesmac said:
    Do you perhaps try to recapture what that thing gave you by looking for something similar?

    I like to research more about the stories in the series to help me understand the story better or get aspects that I missed, but then when I feel I have got everything out of it that I want then I like to go back to my "wish list" and watch something completely different to mix things up and broaden my experience.

    If I watch a new season of a TV series that I have been following before (ie more of the same) then I like to try something completely different next - a film from a genre I maybe don't usually watch just to stop myself experiencing the same sorts of things all the time.

  • Yes I really struggle with finishing a TV series that I really enjoyed. Nothing else seems quite right afterwards. I want to recreate that feeling but I just can't.

  • I have that experience if I find a series on I player that I get into when I get to the end. I enjoy watching Call the Midwife as it is one of those series that helps me switch off for an hour. The latest one is Ludwig, but still 5 more weeks to go. I also do that when I find a good book that takes me somewhere else for a while.

    I had a craft project that took about two years and when that was over I had to try to find something else relaxing to do.