So before I begin, let me say I'm back! There will doubtless be many of you who have never seen my blog before so to you I say "Hello" but to anyone that has read any of my posts before, to you I say "Hello again".
The theme of this is also an explanation as to where I have been. I am a man of many interests and therefore what I call distractions. To be honest it's never really something that bothers me, I have learned to deal with the fact that I have the attention span of a 7 year old but quite recently I have learned that retrospect truly is a b***h.
You know how some people have a hobby, and I mean the singular. Like train spotters. Mostly you'd say they were pretty weird and a bit smelly, not that I know I've only seen train spotters on the other side of a train trying to dodge being part of some weird photo… Anyway my point is they do one thing they have one passion and I daresay that they find it all very fulfilling even though they know we think they are all a bit 'special'.
My point is that they have managed to find something that interests them enough that they can focus on that one hobby and do all the things that train spotters love to do. The same can be said about football/soccer fans depending on where you're reading this from, fans get so obsessed with their teams it tends to overtake their lives, season tickets, team jerseys/strips and all other sorts of memorabilia.
I have the opposite problem, everything interests me, well not everything, Justin Beiber for example, I'd rather see his head on a spike as soon as look at him but you know what I mean. I'm so eclectic I just transition from fad to fad or craze to craze because it's new and shiny and like the child I appear to be, I latch on.
The best example of this is TV a bit of an odd and fairly mediocre example but still, The Big Bang Theory is one of the funniest shows on TV period. Sheldon is potentially one of the funniest characters ever created and I want one, not a cardboard cut-out or something I need someone to develop the technology to take characters from TV and make them real so I can have a Sheldon. And Penny. I love her too, obviously for different reasons to Sheldon but I'd take her too. Anyway back to the point, I watched all four seasons of The Big Bang Theory (including Season 3 twice) in just over 7 days. I now feel lost, there is a Big Bang Theory kind of void in my life and there's nothing I can do about it.
That happens to me quite often with TV considering I don't watch it all that often but hey ho. Like my wonderful script writing idea. I own either 4 or 5 or 6 books on methods to use when writing a good screenplay. I've started doing it three times and then for some reason just stop and start doing something else. Like the gym, that's a fairly recurrent craze of mine, I'll go on some bonkers health kick for about 2/3 months and tone up, be in the best shape of my life then I'll stop and do something else…
You see where I'm going with this… I think I have a semi-under control version of ADHD. In the long term my I have become fairly comfortable with the fact that my fads will cost me money throughout my life, but I'm not doing anyone any harm so it's all good. I suppose.
