What is Your Longest Running Intrest and Why?

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My obsession is the Internet, i discovered it in 2001 and ever since ive been utterly obsessed with figuring out how it works and how to make websites that can serve millions of users.

i think the reason i keep going back to it is that there is a endless list of things to learn, ive tought myself how to program and can understand code written in new languages i cant yet program in, i can market websites in google and achieve good #1 rankings for competitive terms... and yet there is sooo much more to learn, and the best bit i can learn it my way

Languages/linguistics

because it's how people convey thoughts...by moving their tongue/face as their vocal cords vibrate...... It is also fascinating that little letters put together make a word.. and those words connect together to make an idea....

Storytelling.

For as long as I can remember, I've been thinking up stories. Since I could write, I've been writing them down. And now most recently, I've moved into telling stories through movies.

I've had all of my current interests for less than a year, so I won't talk about those.

My longest-running interest I've ever had was anime, and that lasted for about 11 years (age 8 to 19). I loved the bright colors and the way the artwork looked, and I thought the stories were fresh and original. Sometimes I miss being an anime fanatic, but I can't seem to recapture the sense of magic and wonder that anime used to bring me.

1. cars, especially Oldsmobiles. Though I do enjoy many old/classic/muscle cars. But mainly Oldsmobiles. They're my main favorite.

2. My family had one when i was a kid. they had a 2nd one after that first one. The 2nd one became my 1st car, which gave me a newfound sense of freedom. I grew up in a town that built Oldsmobiles, and many people there owned either an Oldsmobile or other GM vehicle. There are other reasons, but I can't even begin to list them here.
I've been into Oldsmobiles specifically since high school, when one student used to drive his 1968 Olds 442 to and from the school. I remember seeing that car and wanting it. It was pretty and fast-looking. That was close to 20 years ago, and I am still really into Oldsmobile. I collect model cars, Oldsmobile logo'd clothing, Hotwheels/Matchbox cars (specifically Oldsmobiles), magazines, etc... and of course I have an Oldsmobile. I probably will always be into this.

Wargames, although one specific wargame had my attention. This lasted for propbably a good ten years, got set aside, came back again about five years later for another two or three years.

It was Star Fleet Battles, which was based on Star Trek (which was already a special interest), and it was full of charts, little color-coded cardboard counters with silhouettes of the various ships stamped on them. I probably spent 10x as much time organizing the counters and the ship displays and inventorying everything I had than I did actually playing the game. I mean actually playing it was kinda cool but often time-consuming and boring.

Anyway, I lost much of the game at some point, but a few years later got a decently paying job and repurchased the whole thing (and, wow, pricey). And then did the whole thing all over again. I replaced it with a similar game called Babylon 5 Wars for similar reasons.

Why? It had so much intricacy/complexity, and could be as simple or complex as you needed it to be at any time. The rules were modular and expandable, and ... yeah, it was just the most organized and meticulously developed thing I had ever seen, and it described its own self-contained universe. Now? I'm not sure I would continue to think that, but at the time, yes.

I also own all the Starfleet Command games, which were based on SFB. And I seem to actually play them more than fuss with their guts.

Military weapons and combat vehicles. It was specific to WWII when I was younger but flows along more modern lines these days.

My long time interest in art, and art of any kind. My journey started in a horrible mental hospital that was shut down by the health dept 3 years after I left (as well as it should have been). I started drawing and writing poetry and I am kinda savant about it to cuz I really got a hang of it without any instruction when I started. Then when I got out, I took some art classes in high school and made a+ and my first watercolor I ever painted was in a gallery a few years later. I then went on to watercolor and some acrylic. Then I decided that I wanted to go to art school, so I did and it was alot harder than high school art classes and the critques were a b***h cause if I did a really good job, the students would pick it appart. But I would get an A from the teacher, however if I did a half @ss job, the teacher would give me what I deserved, but then the same students who picked my A+ work appart, would tell me how much they liked it....urrrg. It really took a blow to my art lust, after I left and went another school. I was in a 3D design class which I had to take over agan cuz I failled the first time, and I failed this one too, both because of underestimating how long a project would take. Well one of the assignments was a coiled basketry non functional art project. I fell in love with the technique and have been doing it ever since. Then my love for fiber art caught fire, and I have learned to spin fibers on a wheel, knit, traditional basketry, jewelry making, paper making, fiber sculpture, pottery, and some other stuff I cant remember right now.
But my longest enduring single art interest is poetry...been writing for 19 years...and I am working on getting published.

Why??? because art is my healer. There is so much that I have trouble with and so much of my life is focused on what I cant do, but art is the one thing I can so. The creative spirit that flows through me is very healing too.

Fiction, but I usually have a particular writer that I am interested in. Why? No clue, I have always liked reading and making up stories.

The band "Great Big Sea", I have no idea why it has stuck with me for 6 years, I think it's because they keep releasing new albums and touring. They have played countless times in driving distance of where I live in the past couple years, despite the fact that they live across the country. I have also 3/5 of the members and they have all been super nice.

I'd say for me it would definitely have to be videogames. I started out with the NES back when I was 3 and I'm still playing at the age of 26. On average I'd say I get in ATLEAST 4 hours a day. So yeah.....

Heavy Metal has to be another one. Been a huge fan of the genre for 16 years now.

Military intelligence.
Been my interest since I was 7. I have had ones along side, but they haven't lasted.

Why military intell?
Because it is awesome - it gives me that rush that only your interest can.
There are so many fields to look into.

The anime series Sailor Moon. I've been obsessed with it since I was about six years old and I still am pretty obsessed with it today, at age nineteen.

1) Meerkats, zoology and Lion King. Come to think of it my special intrest has always been a certian species of animals. Weither manatees, meerkats, dogs, cats, macaws, bearded dragons or ocelots.

2)Your guess is as good as mine. I think sometimes our special intrests choose us as opposed to us choosing them

Electronics, since I was around 8 - and that's a looong time ago now.
Before that it was maps and clocks.

Electronics got replaced by computing for many years, but it lives again and I flip regularly between the two and sometimes they even combine. That's pretty cool.

Astronomy. Beautiful & interesting.