How you tell a special interest is ending ?

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Also have you ever wanted to keep a special interest when it's time has gone for it to leave?
I've spent three years and a month on one subject and this year I started getting 'breaks' from it- I would have a week or so when te interest would drop quite a bit but I'd still find myself thinking about my subject a lot just in shorter spaces. And the more it's gone on the more frequent these are. I am not sure if this could be anxiety because I'm just about to go back to school and that's when it starts.
Also I really don't want this one to end even though I feel it's getting closer, has anyone ever had that?
Or has anyone got any particular signs that it's going to go?
Also, another one, has anyone noticed the older they get the longer an interest lasts?

I've observed that in normal people the material becomes boring on its own, eventually being overshadowed by a previously secondary interest (possibly still related to the old interest one way or another).

For me I think a new interest just begins to take over the old one. I will get an overwhelming urge to indulge in my new interest and not have time anymore for the old one.

I just want to do something else with my time instead. I always cycle through about 8 things with music and video games always getting attention though.

For me: when I realize it hasn't crossed my mind for months or weeks. My special interest was religion for a year and a half, and I'd notice on the calender that I had been an atheist for x months. I just stopped noticing after it hit 18 months, and, after missing a month, realized that I was comfortable with the beliefs I had and didn't feel I had to obsessively defend them against a mental C.S. Lewis. I do still frequent a few atheist/religious blogs, since I still find religion a moderately interesting topic.

I also vow never to have a long term special interest again. My grades and other interests suffered because of that one. I will do whatever it takes to distract myself. (Anyway, there are too many interesting things out there, I'm sure I'll get distracted easily.)

I think politics are kind of interesting, and that will probably drop off after the election. And sense I believe that to happen I am pretty much choosing that to happen, which is good, there is other stuff I am interested in but can't get motivated on right now.

This is exactly how I am, and sometimes it will hobby-type things and then I feel bad because my dad will think I've lost interest in it altogether and see it as a waste of money, when I will eventually get back into it, but not as much.