>>7625155It might have to do with how you can conceivably take the interest. If you were learning reverse engineering and then realized you'd have to learn to apply it ASM, you may have just saved yourself a bunch of emotional distress by "losing interest". Soccer, it may have been that you knew you'd have no one to play with.
This is how things are for me at least. I was learning programming and having a lot of fun with it until I realized that I won't get hired until I graduate, that I'll get hired after graduation whether I do it a lot or not, that the few people that do talk about programming very openly tend to be old pendants or dumb autists whereby I only get into a conversation about the tradition as the rigor or the verbatim proof of the code as tantamount to the subject and/or concept.
I still use it a lot, as in I deputize situation and apparent logic into a generic system that I mentally adapt to the situation. This makes it easy to "predict" outcomes and other equally stupid deviations from the some more common outcomes. It's a fun way to expand one's mind but for the most part makes it even more difficult to start new projects because of the whole explicit accounting of variable into a new abstraction on a platform separate from myself.
