Has there ever been a time where you lost interest in video games?

[Super_Boom]

To be honest, I was going through this off and on for the last few months, and feel I only got over it recently. I guess in general, gaming has really become less of a main hobby, and more a 3rd/4th hobby when I have nothing else going on. For a while though, I just had absolutely no interest in it. 

I think, in my case, I just felt how I was going about gaming was wrong, or at least, wasn't working for me. I had a list of games I wanted to get through from various genres, on various systems, and would basically plan three or four games ahead on what I would play next. I liked being organized...but this really hurt my interest in the hobby as well. With full-time work, graduate study, and other obligations, I found that I was accumulating games faster than I was playing them. No matter how hard I tried...I would just get buried, and eventually I just realized I wasn't having any fun trying to stay on top of my backlog constantly. My backlog would just grow and grow, forever mocking me. 

Meanwhile, while this was going on, I had a friend who was playing Fire Emblem Fates. He had already beaten all three of the game's story paths...and even though he had plenty of other games to play, he was still playing Fates. Not to replay the story or anything...but because he had created a goal for himself to turn every female character in the game into a maid. While it sounds silly...he was always in such a good mood doing this...and it finally dawned on me, which of us is in the right here? The one who's trying to play everything, or the one who's enjoying the games he's playing at that moment?

I guess what this long sob story boils down to is...the way I was gaming wasn't working for me. I can't play every game out there, and it's ridiculous to assume otherwise. I deleted my entire backlog list on my computer...and honestly, I felt great after doing it. Now my backlog is literally "whatever I want play next." While I realize this means I have a ton of unfinished games out there...the feeling of freedom makes it more than worth it.