It's a phase.....our priorities change as we get older and wiser. There is a season for everything and one of those seasons for some people is to take a step back and re-evaluate things. I think you will find that the passion will come back, but it will be different..... My guess is that in the past you may have been what a lot of people would consider obsessed with killing a big buck. Am I right? Because of a lot of factors (access problems to land you want to hunt, less time to devote to hunting, etc.) you have become frustrated because these things have hindered your efforts. Right? I reached that point a few years back. Places I'd hunted for years and years were suddenly leased out to outfitters. I knew those places like the back of my hand. I had to find new places to hunt and learn them and found that there were a lot of other hunters in the same predictament I was in....it was very discouraging and to be quite frank very depressing. Hunting pressure increased, more and more "out of staters" were hunting "my" places, etc. So, ya.....there was a time when I was just tired of the fight. But it passed.....Maybe it will for you, maybe it won't. It doesn't matter....if you cannot rekindle the fire, you'll find something else equally as enjoyable.....