The Shifts

I don't have a one-track mind. I have multiple interests in life, all of which, when they are spotlighted, take over my mind. But they always switch, my attention shifts to the other interest and that's it. I have phases. It would be fine if it were phases related to my tastes of music or food or something like that. But it's phases about the main interests in my life, about what I want to do, etc. For instance, I love litterature, photography, visual arts, cinema, industrial design, etc. Related disciplines, you might say. The trouble with that lies in the fact that when my one of the interests takes over, it truly takes over. I become near-obsessed with it, more or less leaving the others behind.

It used to be really disturbing. I would be in cinema mode for three weeks, frantically working on my screenplay and then, I'd wake up one morning and the sheer idea of my screenplay would conjure up nausea. The same day, I would begin something else, be it a sculpture or a sudden need for deep research in the field of object design of the past century; it would go on for a couple of weeks, then shift. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

For the first months after I came back home from my oh-so-riveting university experience, I was shifting a lot. Really wondering what I wanted to do, changing mind every couple of days. The shifting slowed down in last April, when I bought my Nikon SLR. Somehow, I managed to stay in non-exclusive photo mode for days, weeks and months. I would be able to write and be interested in other things while still being highly interested in photography. That's not a first, but that's certainly an excellent thing.

Side note: The only other occurence of multi-mode I have had was back in Cégep, when I would be having writing courses and I would also work on videos and etc. That was true multi-mode, but I guess it was context forced.

Pretty astonishing is the fact that the multi-mode is not forced this time. I have been shifting less and less, doing other things collaboratively instead of exclusively.

If I start a band, I'll name it The Shifts. ;)