So the last month has been rife with introspection for this housewife, and it all began with an early morning email (I mean really early, like 6 am kind of early) from Reed Hastings.
Don't know who Reed Hastings is?
Well, he's the CEO of a company called Netflix. Not sure how an email from the CEO of Netflix could cause a whirlwind of self-discovery? Well let me tell you the story. So I don't do tv, but in our house we do Netflix. It has tons of movies and cartoons for Kaydn Rye to watch during his limited movie-time that are consistent with our faith-in-Jesus based values, such as Veggie Tales and Hermie and Wormie. And it's funny that just the other day I saw one of the local newspapers had done a question and answer piece on the new school teachers in the local school, and under "favorite past times" one of the teachers stated "netflixing." How interesting that "netflixing" is now a hobby.
For background info, for those of you who don't "Netflix," it has two main parts - you can put a movie into your queue to rent, and while you are waiting for your dvd to come in the mail you can watch some of their instant play movies. So apparently Mr. Hastings thought it would be a great idea to separate the company into this weird Qwikster web site that would house the instant play movies in addition to Netflix, which would have the regular dvds.
And you know what, the thought that now I would have to manage two separate dvd queues, one for the instants and one for the dvds, the thought of that inconvenience made me crazy. I thought, what in the heck is this Reed Hastings doing changing an aspect of my life that is perfectly fine the way it is?? So I got up and told my husband, who was in the shower at the time, all about the lowdown on Netflix.
Needless to say, I started the day pretty fired up about cancelling my Netflix service so that I wouldn't have to deal with this terrible "life-changing" event.
But as I thought about it throughout the day, I couldn't believe how much thought I had given to this new and supposed life inconvenience. How often do we get upset when the entire world doesn't revolve around us and our expectations. While I try to keep this a lighthearted little blog, really, in thinking the entire world revolves our selfish little desires, the heart issue really is a sin problem, the sin of looking inward rather than outside of ourselves and up to Jesus.
So in light of the Netflix incident, I began thinking about all the ways in my life that I expect to control the world, and then, God spoke to me again through a YouTube video a friend posted on Facebook. Yes, God works in mysterious and weird ways.
So, in the words of comedian Louis C.K., the world is amazing, so be happy people!
That's all I have time for, so I'll have to do a second installment of life lessons sent to us by Reed Hastings....
Sunday, October 30, 2011
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Hastings proposed a change that would directly effect many Netflix subscribers nationwide and then he changed his mind and decided that he did not think things through well enough. I personally thought the whole thing was funny, and the social media uproar was rather surprising. Since I work for DISH Network, I was exposed to an alternative that would rival Netflix and officially launched last month as the Blockbuster Movie Pass. My family and I love having options of not only streaming and DVD rentals by mail, but also the ability to rent Blu-ray’s and video games at no extra charge. I am glad you were able to find a silver lining in Hastings mishaps, and I hope things have worked out for you now that Netflix is finished making changes for now. Keep up the insightful thinking!
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