No one ever reads or watches what I recommend (that’s a lie, one person does). I usually don’t expect others to engage with my interests, I wouldn’t hold a grudge if they don’t. But it upsets me when this occurs in the event of exchanging recommendations with someone who ends up not reciprocating. This has happened on four separate occasions with different people. While I’d actually read the book, give my opinion and genuinely engage with them, they would postpone doing so and constantly make excuses until they think I’ve forgotten. One time I made a promise with a friend to watch a series of their choice and vice versa, guess who did and who didn’t (“My internet connection is so bad” you’re literally watching other shows as we speak…)
This begs the question: are my recommendations this bad? I’d like to put that to the test. Here are the recommendations in question:
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- The Tatami Galaxy
- Parasite
- Azazeel by Youssef Ziedan
my boss and my coworker are both like this lmao.
they give me an endless list of bullshit “you have to watch” but the few times i recommend anything to them they never get around to it. and whats even more annoying is after they recommend shit to me they’ll ask me for weeks on end “did you watch it yet?” til i finally do.
unless it’s something that sounds genuinely interesting now i just say “oh all my time is taken up by playing thru the mass effect trilogy rn”