How do some of you feel when an interest ends

[Rachie]

I was wondering how do some of you feel when an interest ends. Some interests will come with a bit of a lifespan as there may be only so much of something that can be collected and you collect them and complete it. My waterfall hunt was started in good fun and something as I liked to visit and turned into a bit of an interest of its own in the end. When I thought I had completed all the waterfalls in London parks visiting them and filming/editing and uploading the footage I was a bit gutted and I was a bit of a loss. It didn't encourage me to think about something else going through that. Such is life and something else showed up. I still like waterfalls, but it is limited now, and I tried to to tune it to different directions a bit and will see them still if it is possible, but it is not as it was.

I finished a big writing project and was thinking, ahh life is done lol a bit...found something else.

I have never regretted though having an interest even though one which had an end point.

So, how have some of you felt when an interest pretty much or did so come to an end.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

For me, it's not that I have lost interest, per se, it's more that I've discovered a new interest. I love taking the "deep dive" into topics and special interests, but it will eventually run it's course after nearly exhausting all the available information on the topic and perhaps trying my skills at it. My mind just needs something new to focus on. As you suggest that some of my interests I have had a lifetime (gardening), but even those that I have sort of "put on the back burner" I am still interested in and may actually pick up again (large aquarium ecosystems). I can keep myself stimulated with about 3-4 special interests at any given time. I can't wait until I retire and can dedicate more time to them.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I can't wait until I retire and can dedicate more time to them.

Now that I am retired, I am so busy that it's hard to imagine I ever had time to fit in 40 hours of work a week. There definitely still isn't the time I would like to devote to my interests. Life keeps getting in the way.

So far, I have not lost an interest. I just add more as life goes on. Then I have to time-share them all.

 

[Nervous Rex]

I feel a little guilty about dropping a hobby sometimes, because I usually leave my latest project unfinished.

I have to consciously remind myself that the hobby is for my enjoyment and I am free to change it or drop it if I enjoy something else more.

 

[Judge]

I've agonized over whether to give up plastic modeling for some time. The only thing is, I haven't really been involved in it for three or four years now. Making such concern possibly a moot point. Also the cost of such a hobby is completely out of control, with or without the specter of tariffs looming for so many products now made in Asia. But it's also a hobby still sentimentally dear to me, given it was one that began when I was eight years old.

I still keep involved with hardware and software issues with my computers, though I don't do much with digital imagery any more, with my camera or with Photoshop.

I suppose for the most part my special interests just ebb and flow. Though my interest in maps has never waned.

 

[Jumpinbare]

I feel a little guilty about dropping a hobby sometimes, because I usually leave my latest project unfinished.

I have to consciously remind myself that the hobby is for my enjoyment and I am free to change it or drop it if I enjoy something else more.

Mea culpa!

 

[velociraptor]

I was wondering how do some of you feel when an interest ends.

I have the same interests at 56 that I had at age 6. Now I just have new ones I picked up over the years as well. Sometimes I find a different way to pursue an older interest (e.g. from the darkroom to Photoshop).

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Same here interested in physics, since young have not lost interest to this day now 70. My interest in colour control ended when I retired.

 

[Neri]

Mine don't usually end, I just cycle through them. When I lose interest it's kind of seasonal, I know it will come right around again. Mine are not the kind of interests that can be exhausted. Most are art forms, some fall into the humanities/social science camp and or esoteric camp. I just seem to accumulate more than finish any.