Published on 12, July, 2020
Anyone else have a series of obsessions that seem to come and go in rotation?
When I get into a hobby, I throw myself into it fully and pursue it with passion whilst I'm learning at a decent rate. Then when the learning slows down because of the plateau that inevitably comes, I lose interest and move on to something else, often an old hobby.
Because I value efficiency, I'll often sell all of the hobby equipment - sometimes regretting it shortly afterwards.
I've been through astronomy, photography, shortwave radio, ham radio, electronics, hifi, religion, piano playing, guitar playing, motorcycling, advanced motorcycling (to the point where I was qualified to teach this). On the odd occasion that I find myself without a passion I get into a hell of a mess with addictive behaviours too.
I have some obsessions that last a really long time. I've had some that have currently lasted about 20 years.
I have other obsessions that are short lived. They've never tended to be ones that involve lots of equipment though. At the moment it is rubiks cubes.
Mine are all childhood things that come and go. I recently toyed with getting back into 00 gauge railways - but on costing it all up it would be thousands to build a nice layout - and where would I store it?
I had forgotten 00 gauge railways! One of the nicest things my dad did for me as a child was put a 6ft square bit of MDF on castors so I could build a permanent layout and it would slide under their double bed when not being used!
I designed one that has multi loops for a 8x4 sheet of ply that has over 80' of linear running track winding around on 3 levels with some tunnels & bridges.
Relatively easy to build but just sooo expensive.