Silence is a Simple Lack of Obsession

So it’s been a while since I’ve started a new thread, and even longer since I’ve posted something new of worth… And why is that? I dunno. Call it lack of inspiration, writer’s block, a dormant obsessive nature, laziness, or all of the above. But it’s not as though I’ve lost my tongue; I still have plenty to say — I talk to myself all the time, and oh the great debates I have.

I do appreciate all of the poking and prodding though, and I’m sorry I’ve been so remiss. Thankfully, some of you have continued to post comments in existing threads, so despite my silence and the world’s obsession with Facebooking and Friendsters and Deja News and other avenues of online discussion, this site has managed to stay alive, and we’ve continued to have some interesting contributions.

But I think my blogging inactivity is mostly due to the lack of obsession. I tend to bounce through periodic obsessions as I focus intensely on one or two interests and then change gears hard when something else catches my fancy. It’s not that I’m spastic or fickle, I just really immerse myself in whatever I’m into at the time, and so I usually move on and come back to the things I really love only eventually.

As a result, often times the tools of my hobbies lay dusty until my interests cycle back.  For example, over the years this has very much been the case with me musically.  At the moment I have a room full of toys sitting, time quickly stripping away their innovation, but forcing that sort of thing never works for me.  Likewise, although I’ve had a number of new threads in the works for a while, every time I’ve sat down to expand on them I just haven’t felt it.  What do you do?

But this summer and fall were rather obsession-less for me.  In fact, until November, I hadn’t really been consumed by anything since I’d pressed to finally get my site revamped in the spring.  Luckily, the release of Modern Warfare 2 proved to me that I still know how to beat something into the ground, so maybe I’m just waiting for my next big interest or my focus will naturally swing back toward writing or music or what have you.

In the meantime, I’ll try to work more on getting some new posts up, even if I’m not necessarily itching to sit down and muse and write and generally be brilliant.