@Kestrel
I don’t have an ADD/ADHD diagnosis but I’ve suspected for a while I might have it on some level. I just haven’t made the effort to get it looked into because, well, I haven’t.
But I came to say that I also used to be a voracious reader. I was a frequent library visitor and always had my nose in a book. But it was like as soon as I graduated high school I stopped reading?? I don’t know when exactly I realized it. I’ve tried to pick up another book or two over the years but I can’t stick with it - and I do fully believe it’s in part because of this hobby because I would be reading but then want to check what was going on in any of my games. I am one and a half chapters in to ‘Needful Things’ by Stephen King and it’s been like that for almost 3 weeks.
I just had a conversation with my husband (again) recently about the fact I don’t have any other hobbies and it would be a lot healthier to try and work some other ones in and how when I do step away from the MUSHes I want to do things again.
To which I will say I have pulled back a lot in general and am only down to about 1 very active game and two games that are kind of on the back burner but I know he’s right and so I’m trying to start incorporating again a couple things I had enjoyed doing or been in the process of learning.
It won’t change overnight, but I just have to keep at it.
Can we also talk about how hard it is to really stick with any kind of habit-forming routine? It’s insanely easy for one little thing to knock me off weeks of progress in a routine and having to start from scratch again.