Re:The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
by larnmar on Saturday November 23, 2019 @06:11PM
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You’ve just listed off a dozen obsessive interests, and that’s the problem — you can’t have a dozen obsessive interests, there’s only enough room for one.
When I was twenty I could afford an obsessive interest in my studies. Now I’m in my late thirties I simply have too much going on.
On the upside, when I’m sixty (which is peak bus ticket collecting age) I can see how I will, finally free of the constraints of work and children, finally have time to obsess again. I hope I still have the mental agility to do it well, and that I don’t get sucked into some bus ticket vortex.
When I was twenty I could afford an obsessive interest in my studies. Now I’m in my late thirties I simply have too much going on.
On the upside, when I’m sixty (which is peak bus ticket collecting age) I can see how I will, finally free of the constraints of work and children, finally have time to obsess again. I hope I still have the mental agility to do it well, and that I don’t get sucked into some bus ticket vortex.