What have you been doing that you thought you enjoyed but realized you don’t?

I bought a bag of Pringles Mingles cheddar and sour cream.

I hate them, but I spent $5 on them.

I really have to toss in the trash lest I eat more.

Watching the news.

I’m in a book group, and I enjoy the social aspect very much. The actual reading of the book, however, I find to be a chore. I may like the book, but I procrastinate and find myself speed reading the week of the meeting, trying to get through the book so I can participate in the discussion and at the very least, answer honestly when they ask “who read the book?”

I’m not sure if my attention span is less because I’m older, or if social sites like FB have ruined it, causing a distraction for me.

Watching the evening National News

What comes to mind for me are specific games, especially video/computer games. There are many games that I enjoyed greatly at first, or even for a while, and then eventually I stopped enjoying them. Usually this happens when I “figure them out” in a way that has me relate to them differently, generally because at first they conjured something in my imagination, but then my experience gives me a different and much less interesting perspective on what’s happening, what’s possible or likely, and how I think about it.

Going to work.

Work lol. Seriously, when you’re young, work is fun: you get some adrenaline, you feel like you’re doing something with your life, and you meet people.

But depending on what job you have, there’s jealous or abusive or miserable people.

The exhaustion sets in when you get older, the days start melting together and you realize billions of years of evolution is wasted doing monotonous tasks and you’re supposed to get some pride out of it.

I don’t blame people for gaming the system, being criminals, scamming etc.

Until actual honor and reward is brought back to employment, this will only get worse.

Lately, it’s been cooking. Usually I love to cook but I just don’t have the desire to lately.

It’s not exactly in the present, but I realized I don’t like playing board games with one particular friend who is not reciprocal about choosing which games to play and who can’t keep a lid on her behavior if we are playing something she doesn’t want to play. It took me a long time to see that dynamic for what it was.