50 in 50: What hobbies have I had in the past that I no longer have?

2025-05-14 fifty-in-fifty • 138 words
What hobbies have you had in the past that you no longer have? What happened?

The major one that comes to mind is conlanging. (For those not in the know, that is the process of constructing languages). Nothing happened, except that I stopped doing it. I found it to be very useful to learn a lot of linguistics, and gave me a sort of reason to want to read linguistics papers. Over time, I found that I was mostly having to go through the weeds and do many tedious things, e.g. mapping out how sound changes would affect the descendent language, thinking about semantic changes, etc. in a way that began to feel very routine and a little tedious. So, I stopped.

Programming is another hobby that, while I haven't stopped completely, I definitely don't do as much as I used to. I want to pick it back up again, though, and have for several years...