You won’t remember most of the movies you watched. You’ll remember who was on the couch.

Content is almost entirely interchangeable in memory, and company is not. What survives an evening is who was there, where everybody sat, what somebody said halfway through. The film was mostly a reason for a few people to be in the same room for two hours.

Watch something with other people this week rather than alone, even if their pick is not yours. Let the conversation interrupt it, since the conversation is the part you are keeping.