Interest in chess at an all-time low, any thoughts?

I've been playing chess pretty much non-stop (every day maybe a couple of hours on average) for the past 8 years pretty much and watching videos for the past 3+, produced videos and helped others games for the past 2 basically, put up forums for who knows how long here with 3 or 4 brief breaks from chess in between. 

In the past week, I've lost the impulse and feeling that's kept me going all this time to play chess consistently and have no interest to want to continue. Matters outside of life have had an obvious influence on me, but even through "tough times", I always played chess. Its not like I don't have the freedom to play, I have plenty of time to plan and do so. 

I always played during finals week of school, always during summers when I've had no school, during long road trips, sometimes during class, often while working on homework, etc. 

I guess its just me realizing that chess has been not as important to me as career work/skills or my other interests, but honestly I'm in shock at how low its gotten for me this past week. If there was a rock bottom, regarding interest,  for me without feeling saddened, I'm in that place.

I don't need a friend or a psychiatrist here, but just a discussion to verify whether this makes sense. Does it make sense that it matters so little to me right now given how much time I've put towards it consistently for the past 8 years?

I don't know how old you are, but I am pretty old and this sort of thing has happened to me - at least two or three times. I will go long periods where I am in love with chess and play every day, readings lots of chess books etc. Then, I seem to lose interest. This period can last years, more than five yeras, but then the feeling comes back to me and I become really interested in chess again. 

I guess it's normal. At the moment my chess interest is at a real high and I even published two chess apps for iOS. They are free so download if your are an Apple user:

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/chesstutorapp/id1096289047?mt=8

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chessteacher/id1102241110

But it wouldn't surprise me if my interest waned in a year or two. That's just life.

Your life is going someplace and either chess is part of it or it isn't.

It's a game, after all, and only a vocation for the chosen few. For the rest of us it's either fun or not. If not, cut it loose.

Take a longer break,and/or then perhaps figure out how you would like to play one day.For me aleksi Shirov as white,and Victor korchnoi as black.A system that motivates you to Play.

Take a vacation from chess!

So what?

I take it, that had you put-to-practice more days, like this cat here.. you wouldn't be where you are Now! ..{No activity, no matter how noble, deserves that sort of attention!}.

I understand from other posts that the kind of realization that further progress in chess just isn't worth the effort can come at many levels.  Even young GMs can look at their future with lagging enthusiasm and think maybe going back and getting that masters degree, wise.  It happens.  When the passion goes, forget about it.  Class players have their own "stuckness".  We all know it's about having fun, not validating our worth as a person, and yet, and yet....Working hard to be mediocre.  Even after decades.  You gottta love it.  Chess, music, martial arts; who was it wrote about there being only one art?  Anyway the art is awareness.  It's hard work that has to be done softly or you won't stick to it.