How do you choose your special interest?

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I kind of just come across my interests.

A fews of years ago, I became very obsessed with gemstones and read a lot from a pocket book I own on the subject (It's sitting about a foot away from me, actually).



I find great joy in memorizing 'useless' facts on random stones. (I probably enjoyed the colors, too.)

A few months ago, I became obsessed with Narnia, since it kind of lifted me further out a depressed state which I have since slipped back inside.
Now it's Attack on Titan, because, like Narnia, it's a world I can escape into.

I'm really glad I'm not the only one here. I've been everywhere from breaking off from society altogether and hitchhiking across the country to a complete techno-geek, which is where I am now. Take my user name, I was big into wandering while driving, and I've done neither in a couple of years.
It really made it hard in college, every couple of years I'd think of something new I wanted to major in, so by the time I finished, I didn't have anywhere near the same enthusiasm as when I started. That's how it is with my primary interest and even taste in music: I could be a master at anything, but I get burned out after a few months, especially if I achieve a goal that I set out for.

I get obsessed with stuff very easily and a lot of times I don't intend to make a special interest out of it but then it gets obsessive and I do.

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I don't actually choose what I get obsessed with. It just happens, and I have no choice but to accept it and enjoy it. Well, it starts off with me instinctively being interested in something, and usually it does not turn into an obsession, but occasionally it does before I realise. Then when I find myself wanting to draw pictures of my new obsession or write stories or other things like that, that's when I know it is an obsession starting. Otherwise, I can't just choose an obsession. I've been obsessed with bus-drivers for about 6 or 7 years now, and I'll say that is my main obsession. When I first got obsessed, I thought it was just a crush - which it was. But then I started noticing every little thing about bus-drivers, getting inwardly excited of everything they did, wanting to find out about the bus-drivers that I didn't fancy, and writing stories and drawing pictures of them and so on. That's an obsession. But I didn't just think ''oh, I want to be obsessed with bus-drivers, so I will be''. It just happened. But at the same time I do like my obsession with the bus-drivers. I think my obsessions do also turn into addictions/habits. At the moment I have a cheap bus pass (long story as to why), and I always have owned this bus pass since before I was getting the buses, and so now I have developed a mixture of addiction, habit and enjoyment of getting the buses, sometimes just for the sake of it (yes, call me sad).

I sometimes wish I didn't get obsessed with these things because if anything happened to my favourite bus services or the company that run them, I will be devastated and will take me a while to get over it. It's hard to just have an obsession stop abruptly and having to look for something else to be obsessed with. Casual interests are easy and can come and go, but actual obsessions are very hard to let go of. It's difficult to explain.

Usually it's a matter of the topic of interest being related to another interest I have, or if what the topic of interest involves "endears" itself to me in some way.

I don't really 'choose' mine as such, they just kind of happen.
I'm 15 currently, and politics has always been of big interest to me, including the kind of things going on in the news (it was my favourite thing to watch as a kid) but I've also been hugely interested in History for a lot of my life. My particular interest at the moment is in the events either side of the Russian October 1917 revolution, which is naturally linked to my other main interest in Communism and similar ideologies. Alternatively I have interest in opposing ideologies such as National Socialism. I also am pretty interested in 9/11 and a lot of the conspiracies and facts surrounding it- it really is pretty fascinating. It's definitely a bit of an obsession for me. They are kind of complex and can be quite annoying at times, but to be honest I wouldn't to be interested in anything else

I don't have a really 'set' process for this. It all comes at random for me. (Although a few of them, like my sports passion happened organically......)

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