Reply To: I quit.

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It’s OK not to be OK. And particularly this year, which has thrown so much at everyone.

We all get frustrated, fed up, ‘not feeling it’ with regards many things in life and the same goes for hobby. Sometimes you just need a break to do other things, whatever they may be. you often come back refreshed. Sometimes it’s something else that helps out.

A while ago, I spent some time thinking about why I was getting frustrated with my hobby and not enjoying it as much. It came down to not being organised, both physically and with what I was trying to achieve. I like to see progress and I like to see things finished. So I went back and organised everything. Models into their right place, games systems into their individual boxes, paints into a drawer system etc. That way, when I do hobby, I don’t spend time searching, moving things around and generally getting annoyed with ‘extra activity that isn’t hobby’.

As for organising the ‘achievements’, like many, I had a lot of projects ongoing. Nothing got finished. So this year I decided to not start anything new until I had reduced the pile of projects to just a couple. I’ve now just about done this and I have just three projects on the go, some Blood Bowl minis, some tanks for FoW and some scenery/terrain. A selection of scales and genres so that when I get a little bored with one, I can switch to another. And I’m making swift progress this year, which hits my need to achieve.

So perhaps you need a break. Perhaps you just need to step back and simplify your hobby and understand what you enjoy. Perhaps it’s something else – we’re all different. But it’s always ok, to not be ok.