Can't Relate to Past Interest(s)

[isometry]

Getting tired of things is normal I'd say, it's more surprising to find hobbies and interests that you don't get tired of. I was into playing guitar and listening to guitar-centric music for years, but eventually my "guitar snob" approach to picking music made me unable to find new interesting artists quickly enough to replace the ones I was getting tired of. You could say that my music collection collapsed under the weight of it's own snobbery.

It could have just been a certain point in my life, but I also think that the rise of the internet raised my standard of entertainment. I'm pretty sure I would return to playing guitar if a time machine sent me back to the 1990s, but nowadays most of my interests are related to computers.

 

[C F]

I started liking hard rock and metal for a bit. It didn't last long.

 

[deadish]

Who can?
I mean if you still felt connected to them, they wouldn't be past interests, would they?

I used to be really interested in Duck comics, and while they still have a special place in my heart, at some point I just couldn't keep collecting them.

I was super into metal for years and now I suddenly can't relate to it. I literally woke up one day and felt different.

*shrug*
Did you happen to hit your head?
Lightning strike?

I think it's call ... growing old. >.>

 

[Jonluw]

Who can?
I mean if you still felt connected to them, they wouldn't be past interests, would they?

I used to be really interested in Duck comics, and while they still have a special place in my heart, at some point I just couldn't keep collecting them.

I was super into metal for years and now I suddenly can't relate to it. I literally woke up one day and felt different.

*shrug*
Did you happen to hit your head?
Lightning strike?

I think it's call ... growing old. >.>

"Hi, my name is Chased. I woke up one day, and suddenly I was old."
When I think about it, I guess that's how a lot of people actually feel.

 

[DoPo]

2. I'm going to wager that 2004-2005 you were a Teenager, if not a Kid (not sure what your Profile means by Student), so it shouldn't be too surprising, you probably just listened to it too much and lost interest and you didn't develope the way they did.

Yes, I was a teenager. Around my mid-teens, to be precise. "Student" means I study at a university.

I personally can't share your opinion, basically, Linkin Park has been the Soundtrack to my life thus far, which at times has been oddly specific. I can't really think of anything I don't like, although I did have to listen to A Thousand Suns twice before I really got into it. But, I also don't constantly listen to music or exclusively one Band. Linkin Park is nonetheless my favorite band.

And I don't say you should share my opinion. I'm just saying that right now I can't feel anything right now. I don't even have any more of their songs. Which is extremely unusual for me. Just for comparison, I still listen to some of songs from when I started developing a taste for music (instead of saying "I like everything" when I meant "I have no preferences"). I have a sample of everything I've ever felt significant. Heck, I even have a couple that utterly piss me off and have always pissed me off...and I'm not sure why I still keep them around - I always listen the first 30 or so seconds before changing to something different.

I suppose it's similar to what OP felt, so I doubt it's unusual to happen to people.

 

[deadish]

Who can?
I mean if you still felt connected to them, they wouldn't be past interests, would they?

I used to be really interested in Duck comics, and while they still have a special place in my heart, at some point I just couldn't keep collecting them.

I was super into metal for years and now I suddenly can't relate to it. I literally woke up one day and felt different.

*shrug*
Did you happen to hit your head?
Lightning strike?

I think it's call ... growing old. >.>

"Hi, my name is Chased. I woke up one day, and suddenly I was old."

It's like falling off a cliff.

You fall and fall, inch by inch then suddenly you hit the ground and you are falling no more.

 

[The Shadowlord]

Well, nothing great but I can't stand Anime anymore. Yeah, I wasn't a major fan even back in the day, but I tried watching Wolf's Rain and there was just so much angst it's unbelievable. Then, when I look back, I realised there was so much angst in everything I've ever watched. I realised that all anime was was different series of angst for different reasons. And I just couldn't deal with it.

Then I got annoyed by the very reason anime is so popular. I dislike whole cultures adoring a thing just for its country of origin or for the style of artwork used to make it.

 

[Jonluw]

Well, nothing great but I can't stand Anime anymore. Yeah, I wasn't a major fan even back in the day, but I tried watching Wolf's Rain and there was just so much angst it's unbelievable. Then, when I look back, I realised there was so much angst in everything I've ever watched. I realised that all anime was was different series of angst for different reasons. And I just couldn't deal with it.

Then I got annoyed by the very reason anime is so popular. I dislike whole cultures adoring a thing just for its country of origin or for the style of artwork used to make it.

Personally, I dislike people hating a medium just out of a notion that everything produced in that medium contains the same theme.

Don't diss the medium. Diss the genre.

 

[The Shadowlord]

Personally, I dislike people hating a medium just out of a notion that everything produced in that medium contains the same theme.

Feel free to. Of course, I didn't summarise my entire reasons for disliking the medium. I'm sure I'd still be typing if I did. The whole thing just makes me feel bored, so I can't express any interest on it. But of course, this is my opinion. Feel free to think your own way.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I can't relate to my high school friends anymore.

We were all incredibly close before graduation... but then I went to university in a state that was 17 or so hours away by car. Of my closest circle of friends, I was the only one who left the state.

During my Freshman and Sophomore year at university I'd hook up with them every time I came home for vacations, but it was always somewhat depressing to me. They had all new in-jokes that I wasn't a part of, they'd gone to concerts and lan parties and movies and whatnot that they'd talk about - leaving me with nothing to add to the conversation... I just felt like kind of an outsider whenever around them. I still played games online with them from time to time during my junior year, but less and less often as time went on. By senior year I was completely out of touch with them.

At some point I realized that I actually had far more in common with my five roommates at university than my friends back home, and that my bond with them had actually become far stronger.

A few weeks ago I actually ran into a couple of my high school friends while I was getting gas for my car. It was like I'd traveled back in time, because they still looked and acted exactly the same as they had while we were in high school. I had a realization that I'd grown up and moved on, but they hadn't yet... they were still living the same lives they'd been living six years prior with all the same routines. Made me feel old, even though I'm absolutely not.

 

[Queen Michael]

I grew bored with manga. I realized that I just didn't love all manga anymore. Then I realized that I never had loved all[/] manga, and that I'd read many manga titles just because I liked the style and the medium, so I started reading all kinds of manga again. (I'd kept reading a few titles, so I never really quit it, but still.)

Who can?
Everyone has some past interest they can't understand, no?
I mean if you still felt connected to them, they wouldn't be past interests, would they?

I used to be really interested in Duck comics, and while they still have a special place in my heart, at some point I just couldn't keep collecting them.

Same thing for me. And then, one day eleven years after I quit reading the paperbacks with Italian duck comics, I bought one on a whim. Now I've subscribed again.

 

[Jonluw]

Who can?
Everyone has some past interest they can't understand, no?
I mean if you still felt connected to them, they wouldn't be past interests, would they?

I used to be really interested in Duck comics, and while they still have a special place in my heart, at some point I just couldn't keep collecting them.

Same thing for me. And then, one day eleven years after I quit reading the paperbacks with Italian duck comics, I bought one on a whim. Now I've subscribed again.

I sort of hope I'll reach a point where I can start collecting again, but I don't think I should.
I already own every issue released in Norway between 1948 and 1958 or something, collected in hardbacks, and all the issues between 2003 and 2009 in regular magazine form. Along with The life and times of Scrooge McDuck and the accompanying Companion.
And a good deal of paperbacks (Donald pocket).

I might end up buying the occasional magazine in the future though.

 

[Queen Michael]

Who can?
Everyone has some past interest they can't understand, no?
I mean if you still felt connected to them, they wouldn't be past interests, would they?

I used to be really interested in Duck comics, and while they still have a special place in my heart, at some point I just couldn't keep collecting them.

Same thing for me. And then, one day eleven years after I quit reading the paperbacks with Italian duck comics, I bought one on a whim. Now I've subscribed again.

I sort of hope I'll reach a point where I can start collecting again, but I don't think I should.
I already own every issue released in Norway between 1948 and 1958 or something, collected in hardbacks, and all the issues between 2003 and 2009 in regular magazine form. Along with The life and times of Scrooge McDuck and the accompanying Companion.
And a good deal of paperbacks (Donald pocket).

I might end up buying the occasional magazine in the future though.

That's pretty impressive. I've got the Life and Times in Swedish, but my brother has both it and the companion in English.

 

[Jonluw]

I sort of hope I'll reach a point where I can start collecting again, but I don't think I should.
I already own every issue released in Norway between 1948 and 1958 or something, collected in hardbacks, and all the issues between 2003 and 2009 in regular magazine form. Along with The life and times of Scrooge McDuck and the accompanying Companion.
And a good deal of paperbacks (Donald pocket).

I might end up buying the occasional magazine in the future though.

That's pretty impressive. I've got the Life and Times in Swedish, but my brother has both it and the companion in English.

Cool. My examples are in English. Found them in a bookstore at an airport and I couldn't not buy them. I've always been a Big fan of Don Rosa's stories (and Barks's, but that goes without saying). I made a point of separating every issue in my collection that contained a Rosa story from the rest and put them in a separate pile. It lies at the foot-end of my bed at the moment even now.

Funnily, just recently I looked at the magazines in a store and I noticed that the Norwegian magazine (Donald Duck &co) had started running the entirety of The life and times as an ongoing thing. One chapter in each issue or something.
I was real tempted to buy a magazine right there.

I wish I had the Hall of fame books though. Annoyingly, the publishers gave me - as one of their priority customers apparently - a really good offer on the complete Don Rosa line (or perhaps it was Carl Barks), but I refused.
Gah, I wish I could go back in time and accept the offer.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I no longer like sweet foods anywhere near as much as I used too! I used to allways be eating sweets and cakes, but in recent years I no longer do.. I don't even eat pudding after dinner anymore, and at buffets I am more likely to be found around the sausage rolls or crisps...!

 

[loc978]

First-person shooters. It's not just that I don't like where the genre has gone in the past decade (though I don't)... I can't even get back into the games I used to play for hours on end. back in my early adulthood, I probably threw hundreds of hours into multiplayer Unreal Tournament if you count its million mods and total conversions. Now, I have it installed again, I just don't play it often... and I'm not even very good at it anymore. Time was, I could make three quick-succession headshots with a sniper rifle while freefalling to my death. Now, I can't be bothered to try.

 

[TakeyB0y2]

I used to be really huge fan of Tool... Now whenever I listen to them I feel like smashing my head against the wall. I dunno, maybe I listened to their songs on repeat too many times.

Also, The Sims. No game ate up more of my time than The Sims (the first Sims, that is, and expansion packs of course). One The Sims 2 came out, the charm started to fade. I still played The Sims 2 a lot, but once Open for Business was released the appeal began to die, and when the Pets expansion pack came out, and I hated it, I played the game less and less, until finally I just kinda stopped. I picked up The Sims 3, and while I really want to get into it, all the features I REALLY loved about The Sims 2 never made it over to The Sims 3 (like making your own restaurants) and coupled with the fact that you actually need a pretty damn decent graphics card to run the damn thing without it looking like crap, and I'm pretty strapped for cash, it just... Yeah... Bye Sims, you were great

 

[Chased]

Just discovered this new tune and its perfect for the mood I'm in right now. I used to listen to these guys a while ago and they recently changed their sound from being more extreme metal to a softer post-metal sound.

Spoiler

I'm not sure I'll ever be able to go back and enjoy some of the previous flavors of metal that I used to, it's cool I have those roots though otherwise I wouldn't be able to get into stuff like this (or understand it as well, since this band used to have a heavier metal sound and they themselves progressed musically, in a very similar way that I have).

First-person shooters. It's not just that I don't like where the genre has gone in the past decade (though I don't)... I can't even get back into the games I used to play for hours on end. back in my early adulthood, I probably threw hundreds of hours into multiplayer Unreal Tournament if you count its million mods and total conversions. Now, I have it installed again, I just don't play it often... and I'm not even very good at it anymore. Time was, I could make three quick-succession headshots with a sniper rifle while freefalling to my death. Now, I can't be bothered to try.

I had a similar experience with Mario Kart Double Dash. If you came up to me 8 years ago I could beat just about anyone on Rainbow Road blindfolded.