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Do you ever get so into something you just get sick of it? For instance I got really into politics this year with the Bush/Kerry election and now I cannot stand listening to anything political.
I was also really into woman's rights and reading about feminism, and allthough i still agree with plenty of it, I just cannot read anything about it anymore.
Same thing is going on with spiritual stuff right now. I still believe what I believe, but at this point, I cannot so much as read anything spiritual. Is that strange?

i dont think thats weird at all. im a very obbsive person. when i get some thing in my head i find it hard to think of other things.
i usualy do get sick of it (what ever it may be). so if its some thing that i know theres a chance i will get sick of it and i dont want to i make a choice to switch it up with other things, especialy reading. i try switch from one topic of book or subject to another to take a break.
the only thing i havent gotten sick of is traveling, i guess cause its so diverse.

it's not strange, but up until recently, i thought there were some things that no one would ever get tired of. i guess it's just burning out from overexposure.

i can't believe i'm actually saying this but..

i'm getting sick of travelling. well, that's not entirely accurate. i'm sick of the frustration that comes with trying to figure out my part-time retail-whore budget, seeing how little it'll take me, figuring out if i can afford whatever place i want to go to next. staring at my academic calendar and course catalogs, wondering which quarter i can afford to skip without delaying my graduation. sweet, sweet graduation.. (i view school as the only thing keeping me here). more and more often i've been thinking of just forgetting about travelling - wanderlust is a damn curse. maybe i would be better off being blissfully ignorant, trapped in this small world that only goes so far as school and work. better than fighting off the beginning stages of claustrophobia every night, better than feeling trapped everyday, isn't it?

bleh. i'll stop my bitchin' and whinin' now.

:sigh:

Yea, I am actually really obsessive compulsive (not clinically) about stuff. It’s really disheartening sometime. I don’t know where I am going with this besides I feel your pain. I got really into 15th century Japanese art…bam…15th century Japanese Koi tattooed on my back. Got into stocks, ordered a 2 year subscription to the Wall Street Journal, never read it anymore. Here is a tip that might help you because it helped me. Read for pleasure, that may sound kind of random. Judging by the number of post you have on bootsnall I am guessing that you are the kind of person that hates to not being doing anything. Well take some of the time you are on the internet and read books that interest you, even if it’s a trash novel. The way this helps is that before you have time to go off on a “new interest tangent”, and start really getting into something that will not last, you will be reading another book sparking new interest. That took a whole lot of stress away from me. And your problem sound similar to mine.

Its not at all strange Prisa..we all go through phases and sometimes you get disgusted because you have certain expectations and those are not met..you are dissapointed...and then you can no longer bare to hear or see about that subject.

I hear ya Xoom...there are only a few lucky people who can make a living vagabonding...we mortals have to make a living in other ways. I dream but I also know the facts that i will be working 9-5 and then taking four weeks off each year to see a part of the world...that's how life is going to be for me. Have to reach this compromise otherwise it would be too hard to concentrate on anything else in life...there are other things which are just as important.

Am having issues concentrating these days on work and I promised myself that I will not let my mind wander. Being on these boards does not help...okay no more.