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[jchrisobrien]

Do you give up on hobbies when they aren't fun anymore?
Or is the fact you aren't having fun part of a bigger problem?

I won't be StoryTelling for the VHS in the fall.
I may not be continuing my mage game, which I still don't have a good idea for tonight.
Nothing that flows.

My gaming experiences as a player have all sucked ass lately.
Womped at cards again last night.

I'm sick of it.
Sick.

Comments

[cosmicserpent.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you just need a break from your hobbies. Sometimes that break needs to be permanent. You are always changing, evolving, etc. So it's perfectly natural to have your tastes and interest change over time. Like cris said, take a break and sort things out. I thought I'd always be reading comics, collecting sports cards, and gaming, but then I pretty much stopped all three. I never thought I'd go out dancing in a million years and now that's one of my biggest hobbies. So yes, breaks are good.

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[silas7.livejournal.com]

It's interesting that some hobbies change over time, but not others. I don't hear about people going through phases with sports. "Yeah, I used to watch hockey but I outgrew it." It's something about gaming that's different. Maybe because it's more time immersive. Watching hockey is passive, rolling dice is active.

I suppose if something is a big part of yourself, it will remain constant. As an analogy, some people might game to be something bigger than themeselves, because they aren't crazy about who they are. Once they are more comfortable with themselves, they spend less time wanting to be someone else, and go and have their own real life "adventures". You're right, your desires and interests do change over time. Better to let it go and move on, but that can be hard, when you have invested a lot of your life in something, and don't know what lies ahead of you.

Which is pretty much life, in a nutshell. A nutshell the size of a SUV.