The Constant Pursuit of a Hobby

I don’t understand people who actively and constantly pursue the same interest over extended periods of time: scrapbookers, sports fans, model builders, movie enthusiasts, it doesn’t matter. If you can stay interested in a topic, continuously, for years on end, you puzzle me.

As a for instance, I occasionally build and paint models for a tabletop game. I’ll get interested in it for a month or two and then I’ll wander away and do something else. Lately, I’ve been listening to a podcast by peopl...