So very nice of you to ask… I’ve been on a chair hunt myself, that was the highlight of last month. And the gist of it. Excuse me for the long text:
I’d kill to own a chair the magnitude of a Herman Miller… Not that I know how it feels, but you know how reviews matter more to you than your own experience when window shopping. That’s the gist of my life with things that don’t go well.
In my experience, I’ve also always been gradually putting myself in a wheelchair for most of my life, to the point that a simple couch had way better support for my body (Not that you can work in it, but still). None of my “office chairs” had a headrest, which I really need in order not to hunch over or to give myself a straight neck. These chairs that I’ve been using are stylised and so flat on flat double mattress style. It really looks like you put two mattresses together like a sandwich and opened it up and screwed them in place. The armrest was either non-existent or made out of a slab of hardwood, which I have towels wrapped over to make them less agonising to use, not to mention the whole proportion of the chair just not matching with my body; I bet it doesn’t for most people.
Recently, after years of hating sitting on chairs, I finally decided to invest in a fairly expensive one, and I looked at a lot of “proper” office chairs. Walking into an office chair store in Shinjuku, I tried out all of them. Most of them were mesh, something I really don’t want since it’s just too hard for me, but despite that, all of them had way better support, at least than my previous contenders.
Even the expensive, well-sought-after ones like the HM Aeron Chair and the Ergohuman ones weren’t feeling right (Again, non-mesh chairs almost weren’t a thing there). The one that I ended up liking the most was some executive chair made out of PU leather and cost like $135. I think I like chairs with good cushions. Materials do matter a lot to me.
A few days later, I finally decided to look it up once more and decided on a chair I hadn’t even tried yet. I don’t know if I will like it, but it will inevitably be my chair for the coming years since my bet is on it now. It’s that hyped up chair you see everywhere on chair reviewers’ channels, and for once, I have hopes and dreams… yes, marketing has gotten the best of me. I’m scheduled to be receiving it in a few days and will follow up on it here. At least people have reported to have recieved theirs…
I don’t really know… Just like eating, recent years and my habit of being absent from reality made me think that most things are just a process and nothing to be enjoyed. Sitting is obviously a part of that, and as you mention, being active might’ve saved me from getting a straight neck. Curling up in your chair certainly isn’t healthy or productive. That’s why I have such high hopes! Been hopping trains lately, and I don’t mind more of that. But I want to start being stable-minded about what I like in terms of things I don’t care much, starting with chairs. So I did something that was out of my mind.
May the chair provide me with a place to sit in peace, undisturbed by the agony in my whole body. The dice has landed, the shoreline close, now it’s your turn, chair… what number have I rolled?
You see people, chairs hurt to be in. It’s always a revelation after seeing the ad for a local tourist spot, lounging in the lounge, maybe playing pool, and then taking a hot bath, wrapping a towel on your head, and sitting in the apparently most comfy chair out there, looking out into the stunning view from your hotel. Yeah. When you get there, you’re not getting any rest… not in that chair, no. The bed is the most comfy of them all. And you certainly see no great view from there.
So yeah, I’m one of those people who just hate chairs, like I would try to find alternative ways to sit or position myself in order to just draw on paper in peace, doing sketches as a kid. I felt like being upside down against a wall was a viable option.
I too am very curious about chairs people like here… it was a timely topic.
(I take so long to write) Sorry, @touba_denrael, for not liking your chair. Maybe if it had a headrest (I know some third parties sell them)? Besides, almost all the chairs I tried had partially broken controlls, I probably never got to test them the way they’re supposed to be used, but yeah. It wasn’t too bad, just, eight hrs in it? I probably couldn’t do that. Maybe I’m not used to being in the correct posture? 
Nah it’s probably just the materials. :phew!:
ing [in better chairs]!
