I have been thinking about deleting my YouTube watch history.

At first, it seemed useful to keep it.

I could see what I had watched before.

Continue videos I never finished.

Avoid watching the same thing twice.

But lately, I have started questioning that.

Over time, I noticed YouTube showing me more and more videos I had already watched.

Sometimes videos from months ago.

Sometimes videos from years ago.

I assume the algorithm thinks I might want to watch them again.

Perhaps many people do.

But I noticed that I do not.

When I open YouTube, I am not looking for nostalgia.

I am looking for something new.

Something I have not seen before.

Something that sparks curiosity.

The funny thing is that this realization made me think about how I experience the world outside YouTube.

I revisit the same places all the time.

The same mountains.

The same rivers.

The same trails.

Yet they never feel the same.

The seasons change.

The weather changes.

And I change too.

Reality keeps offering something new.

Algorithms often do the opposite.

They keep offering what already worked before.

Perhaps that is why I am tempted to clear my watch history.

Not because I want to forget the past.

But because I enjoy seeing things with fresh eyes.