Anyone get stuck on their old obsessions?

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It seems like every time I watch my old favorite movies I had been obsessed with, I can't get them out of my head so it's like I am stuck on it again. I just had to watch A League of Their Own and now I can't get it out of my head. I even started to think about some fanfiction about it and thought maybe I should go back to the story I was once working on when I was 19. I had some sense of humor about the movie and wrote about the Rockford Peaches making Kit a baby by treating her like one literally and people throw up every time they have to look at Miss Cuthberts because she's ugly. Kit is known as 'baby in the league' so that's what I called my story. Now I'm laughing as I type this. It's so funny.

When I watched 101 Dalmatians last year, the same thing happened, I started doing some fanfiction about it and posted two of them at fanfiction and one of my other ones I wrote when I was 19 when I had it in my head again. But I had four there but deleted one of them because I didn't like it.


Does this kind of thing happen to anyone else? If you go back to your old obsessions, you can't get it out of your head, you get stuck?

I'm like the opposite. Once I'm done with something, I can't stand it anymore. For example, I used to like punk and hardcore and metal music, and listened to nothing else. Then one day I started hating it, and I never went back. Now if I obsess on a certain kind of music, if it's something I really like, I force myself to limit exposure so that I don't get sick of it. I learned to just obsess on a whole bunch of different musics, and spread them out.

I also used to be into area codes and phone numbers, and I collected hundreds of phone books. then I stopped caring, and recycled most of them, except those which were special gifts. I can start getting back into them, but I can also stop myself from starting.

With me, I have "obsession revivals," where I'll be prompted in some way to engage in one of my older, still intense special interests. But I don't tend to get so stuck on the revival obsession that it's all I think about. On the contrary, I will get excited about it and want to ramble about it, along with my current primary obsession, to my friends and family, but after a few days, I will go back to rambling solely about my current primary obsession. The obsession revival, for me, is really a burst of intense love, comfort, and nostalgia for my other strong special interests, but it never gets to the point where I will think about them all of the time. On the contrary, they all have had their day in the sun to be the sole thing I'd think and talk about.
-OddDuckNash99-

Yes, sometimes when I look at an old obsession it comes back to me temporarily. Rugrats used to be my obsession years ago, and a few weeks ago I went on holiday and the caravan I stayed at had "The Rugrats Movie" on VHS. So I decided to watch it, now I vcheck out Rugrats on YouTube and I'm after the DVD "Rugrats In Paris."

Thomas the tank engine was my old obsession when I was very little and up until recently, i randomly started watching it again and couldn't stop watching it followed by the channel 4's countdown
I'm even downloading the soundtracks and even using it as my mobile ringtone

I remember having thomas train set when i was 6 it was best present I ever had and I would remember having the books and reading over and over and over again years later i looked back at those books and i got hooked to it again I basically was a huge thomas collector I think I still have all the books all fresh and neat.