# Do you have a certain interest that you're afraid to lose? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 1, 2026, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-certain-interest-that-youre-afraid-to-lose/1032740 "2026-09-01T10:42:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doowapdabadoowap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doowapdabadoowap/32/21749_2.png) [@Doowapdabadoowap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doowapdabadoowap)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-certain-interest-that-youre-afraid-to-lose/1032740/1 "2026-09-01T10:42:22Z")
For me it would be kane pixels backrooms ( or “the complex” ) series, i really enjoyed the movie and currently watching available series on youtube and it would suck to see all my love towards it just be a phase. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-certain-interest-that-youre-afraid-to-lose/1032740/2 "2026-09-01T16:15:17Z")
I gain and lose interests all the time, it’s an annoying part of ADHD. I become obsessed with something for a few weeks or months or even a year, but inevitably I lose interest. It’s gotten to where I have to plan for my interest in things to end. I only really take on hobbies where the entry cost is low and it won’t take up much space in my house. That’s why I decided on cross stitch - smaller footprint than knitting or other crafts, and supplies can sit in the closet until I get interested in it again. But the thing is, cross-stitch stuck. I’ve been doing it for 30 minutes a day most days for two years. It’s like my morning cup of coffee. I’d miss it. I’ve always been a fiction writer and while my volume of writing ebbs and flows, I don’t even know who I’d be without it. Right now I miss it because life has been chaos and it’s hard for me to write in the middle of change. I formally became a Zen Buddhist last year after a year of perfect attendance at a local temple, but as soon as I did the precepts ceremony, my attendance tanked. I’m trying really hard not to lose it. I at least started meditating daily again. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-certain-interest-that-youre-afraid-to-lose/1032740/3 "2026-09-01T16:35:17Z")
For me, I had to face the painful reality that music composition wasn’t going to be much or mean much anymore. In the era of AI, we’re going to have a ChatGPT-like thing that can let anyone create or compose whatever music of any feel or genre they like, on instant demand. I did still get to enjoy a good long run of composing and improv/arrangement from 2004-2026, though. Another thing I’m sad to give up is attending sports games in person. I dearly loved attending World Cup games in person this year. I’m still single, but once I get married, then marital and parental finances will make it hard to justify plunking down the hundreds - or even over a thousand - dollars it will take to attend some high-level sports games. Only when single do you get to freely decide how your dollars are spent. I want to go to the 2030 World Cup but there’s a good chance marriage/kids will preclude it. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-certain-interest-that-youre-afraid-to-lose/1032740/4 "2026-09-01T17:06:18Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > In the era of AI, we’re going to have a ChatGPT-like thing that can let anyone create or compose whatever music of any feel or genre they like, on instant demand. So do you feel like your compositions don’t have any meaning in the age of AI? I grappled with this a bit as a writer, but I inherently love the process, so I’d be doing it regardless of whether it mattered to anyone else. As one of my writer friends put it, “I’d write if I was stranded on the moon.” But I understand that a lot of people find the sharing part really important. I have a writers group to share my stuff with so I don’t feel so lonely. I think I have accepted that I’m not getting published anytime soon. I do not have the bandwidth to try. Which is a bummer because I have a finished manuscript that took me ten years to write. ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-certain-interest-that-youre-afraid-to-lose/1032740/5 "2026-09-01T18:34:15Z")
I am afraid of losing my interest in computer games. (Even though i am a long time collector of both consoles and computers). My interest is vaning, but my collection gets bigger… ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-certain-interest-that-youre-afraid-to-lose/1032740/6 "2026-09-02T04:56:56Z")
I have so many projects in progress (WiPs) it would be a tragedy if I lost interest in crochet. As it is, I can only do about an hour per day or I get tennis elbow. Such a shame. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-certain-interest-that-youre-afraid-to-lose/1032740/7 "2026-09-02T05:15:02Z")
I’ve been playing tabletop role-playing games pretty much continually since 1982; I still enjoy playing a great deal, and I hope I never lose that. Similarly, I became a fan of both J.R.R. Tolkien and Star Wars in 1977, and continue to be so. My interest in those has ebbed and flowed a bit over the years, but it’s never gone away, and I hope that I can continue those, too. OTOH, I was a rabid fan of football, and the Green Bay Packers, in particular, since childhood. I’m even a Packers season ticket holder, and a shareholder. But, my passion for the sport has cooled significantly in recent years.