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Adulthood
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last post: Feb 12, 2016
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Adulthood

32 Name: Anonymous : 2016-02-12 07:04
As a kid, my hobbies were always enjoyed in isolation. I was into a variety of things, music, film, games, but always a pretty specific and narrow niche within them, to the point where I've never found any camaraderie online. I was fine with that, for some reason I thought the consumption of art was always personal, I guess because I didn't meet anyone with real interests or hobbies besides girls and sports until highschool. It is a bit of a lonely path, though.

But when I did eventually make friends interested in the same things in hs, it'd result in us influencing each other and bouncing our tastes off each other, sharing things, etc. and ultimately effecting our outlook on the subject. In a good way, and in a way that let me learn a lot more rapidly than alone. But it also resulted in the interests I had that weren't socially accompanied at the time falling by the wayside. For example, art comix I got into, but I had no one to engage them with so I kind of just forgot all about them. Now I've met some people into the same stuff I am, mostly involved in the scene making them, and it's rekindled my interest. Similarly, I've now have a renewed focus in videogames after not playing them for years as I've met some friends at my university involved in them.

But I haven't watched a movie in a month, though a year ago I was watching 3-5 a week. I guess what I'd say has changed isn't my interests, they're still always something I've had an eye on in the past, nor is it just that the focus of my interests have shifted, but that the focus of my interests is a lot more sensitive to the social influence of my peer group.

I don't know if this is good or bad, but it's probably better for my social life in the end.

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