I go through cycles.
There's the music cycle. I will like one genre or one band almost exclusively for awhile, then move on to another genre or band until I arrive where I began. There are always new genres and bands being added to the cycle, but it remains a cycle nonetheless.
There's the videogame cycle. I will play console games almost exclusively for awhile, then PC games, then nothing, then back to consoles.
There's the social cycle. I am, right now, in my "kinda feel like being a social kind of guy" cycle, where I come out of the house a bit more and just generally try to be more "normal." The other part of the cycle is just the opposite, where I take root in my house and don't come out except when I really need to.
There's the art cycle. It starts where I'm really happy about my work, it's really strong and I feel like I could do anything. Then I get into a point where I stress about silly things and while the work may be good, I don't feel as emotionally attached to it and so it feels forced or like I don't have any ownership over it. I am in that part of the cycle right now. Last time the only thing that cured it was a one-week forced exile from drawing, so I'm going to see if that will help.
Why am I so dominated by these cycles??
There's the music cycle. I will like one genre or one band almost exclusively for awhile, then move on to another genre or band until I arrive where I began. There are always new genres and bands being added to the cycle, but it remains a cycle nonetheless.
There's the videogame cycle. I will play console games almost exclusively for awhile, then PC games, then nothing, then back to consoles.
There's the social cycle. I am, right now, in my "kinda feel like being a social kind of guy" cycle, where I come out of the house a bit more and just generally try to be more "normal." The other part of the cycle is just the opposite, where I take root in my house and don't come out except when I really need to.
There's the art cycle. It starts where I'm really happy about my work, it's really strong and I feel like I could do anything. Then I get into a point where I stress about silly things and while the work may be good, I don't feel as emotionally attached to it and so it feels forced or like I don't have any ownership over it. I am in that part of the cycle right now. Last time the only thing that cured it was a one-week forced exile from drawing, so I'm going to see if that will help.
Why am I so dominated by these cycles??
^_^ I have the same problem...except mine is probably worse because I'm bipolar. It used to be pretty severe. For example, for days on end, I would eat only one kind of food. Listen to only one song. Talk to the same group of people. Read the same book over and over again. Watch the same film numerous times. I would love it for a while, and then get viciously sick of it and never listen to that track or eat that sort of food again. For example, I can no longer listen to Jimi Hendrix, watch the film Akira, or eat cream of wheat cereal--because I drove myself nuts with those items when I was younger
Hopefully you're not as nuts as I am