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Daily writing prompt

Are there any activities or hobbies you’ve outgrown or lost interest in over time?

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A whole host of things I have dropped or otherwise replaced with something else over the years. getting drunk, getting stoned and and generally messing my health are amongst them. Others may include playing with toy cars, building blocks and other children’s stuff. As an adult I put away the thigs of a child years ago, I do not know or care where all of that stuff has gone now.

What else? Thinking stuff out before committing myself to an idea. Not spending money when I don’t have to and making clear plans before any new venture. I am far more creative than I used to be and the only destruction that seems to take place now is breaking up and disposing of rubbish or clearing stuff out of the garden. All these new things have come in place of old stuff that is now worn out and broken.

As it says in Corinthians 13:11 ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

I still have my old toy chest, I keep other stuff in their now.

I no longer collect vinyl, which is sad in a way but all my music is now on MP3 which is really sad but takes up far less space, is easier to handle and anyway my record deck is long broken. Maybe if I get a new one then things will change in that direction. Alcohol, smoking and drugs all are gone now, as are toxic relationships and speaking of my plans before doing them. Nay sayers have no place in my life now, I do not care who they are my door is closed to them. Nor do I take on lodgers/tenants anymore, they are far too much hassle. As for employers, after 70+ of them I have got the message there. Work for myself, look after my mental health, I am now more than a little selfish. After years of putting my nose out to satisfy or help other people, I now put my own interests first. if that is wrong or someone thinks of it as wrong, good for them. Let them think as they like, I owe no explanation to anyone. I have very little interest in sport, do not care a fig for F1 which is a proper waste of time, I would rather garden or read a book. There again I have never enjoyed being sat on my backside, not doing anything apart from staring at a box.

I think I am a lot better with money than I used to be.