Rob Hope

What activities do you lose yourself in?

There are many activities that I lose myself in, perhaps too many to count. But I’ll go with my top three.

• Writing Music
  • Nothing gets me locked in like progress on a musical idea. Whether it’s a new guitar riff, or some new concept I’ve learned that I now want to apply, if I’m in the middle of it, I’m not likely to come out of it.
• Reading back in the day
  • Back when I read a ton, and I did read a ton when I was younger, reading a book became an endless escape into other worlds that I could not put down until I collapsed from exhaustion.
• Building
  • Once I got into writing code, that also become something that I hated to stop mid-stream. I would routinely check in code at work at 2am, even if my manager wasn’t happy that I was working that late. When I’m in a groove, or faced with a tough problem, I can’t put it down until it’s done.
• Poker
  • I don’t play much any more, but when I did play, I could play for hours. My late uncle and I used to spend a week in Vegas and play poker tournaments all day, and it never felt old, especially if I was playing well.

There are others, I can be a fairly addictive personality, but these are the ones that I would really lose myself in.

This post is one of many in my responses to random prompts surfaced by the application that tracks my website statistics, as well as any others I encounter.