I don’t think you can make a real list of all the interesting things you like (whether you participate or observe them) in just a few minutes. There are so many elements to ourselves, so many things we have caught in passing and so much flashing through our minds at any given time. But, if we were to just make a slow and building list, I bet you would surprise yourself with how many interesting, kitschy and/ or unique things you have taken an interest in.
Start a list, keep it pinned to a bulletin board, the fridge or anyplace where you can easily jot down another topic/ activity/ hobby as it comes to your mind. Don’t consider it a complete list until it has been quite awhile since anything new has occurred to you. You will see how interesting you really are!
Here is the start of my own list, by no means is this complete. I’m mostly looking for little things that I have almost forgotten myself. But some of the bigger things have to get out of the way (onto the list and out of my head) so I can move beyond them and find the little things.
- ASCII art
- old fashioned clothes
- making Christmas decorations
- Christmas baking
- drawing cartoons/ comics
- reading fantasy stories
- drawing fantasy creatures
- dragons
- reading science fiction
- Carmageddon (a car demolition racing game).
- Empire and city building computer games
- writing erotica
- daydreaming
- road trips
- train travel
- rocks, stones, pebbles
- rural exploration
- urban exploration
- sewing, even mending and hemming
- embroidery
- crochet
- paranormal romances/ chick lit
- drawing for Christmas and Halloween
- old buildings and architecture
- astrology, mostly for online dating purposes
- web design and development, as an amateur/ hobbyist
- blogging, online writing and web publishing
- the possibility of time travel
- wildflowers and native plants
- Wicca, Witchcraft and Paganism
- old traditions
- pioneer and old ways of living
- pixel art
- car art
- Renaissance Faires, though I have yet to attend one
- the supernatural, occult, paranormal – though some of it really spooks me.
- herbs and cactus plants
- end of the world/ civilization scenarois, mostly survival and building things back up
- doll making
- beading, have done only a little
- papercraft like folding and cutting out images to make art
- podcasting
- writing a paranormal chick lit book
- writing a syndicated newspaper column
- zine publishing
- linguistics/ words
- digital scrapbooking
- digital photography
- collage
- mail art
- role playing games – RPGs
- illustration/ graphic arts
- copywriting/ copy editing
- fashion design
- interior design, furniture
- recycling and refurbishing furniture, clothes, etc
- green living
- history
- web usability
- haiku poetry
- backpacking travel
- skating
- nature crafts
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My problem has always been that I’m interested in EVERYTHING. My Google Reader will attest.
OMG! Did you look inside my brain when you made that list? Well, OK, drop anything involving designing for the web … because I am not very good with that. Otherwise…I think you are me! I wondered why I felt so lost lately.
I am interested in almost everything. When I was a kid I wanted to know everything. I was pretty disappointed when my Mother told me this wasn’t possible. At the time I decided I would be the one person who acheived this lofty, yet so-called impossible, goal.
Emm, it really is weird if you have all those interests from dragons to art to old buildings. I hope we aren’t sharing a brain. There are a few things I’d like to keep secret.
Great idea – I am interested in everything too. I am curious by nature, drives my husband insane!
I am the exact same — I have the ability to get interested in everything. Especially if it has anything to do with food, animals, carnivorous plants, tropical plants, crafts, DIY, gadgets, electronics, oh here I go (probably would never stop if I had the chance)… You get the idea
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