My interest in acquiring new skills and abilities has reawakened! Like many people, I have had lofty goals about learning a new language, picking up an instrument, and learning to draw (just to name a few).
However, I also haven't really done anything about building proficiency in these skills. Sure, every few months I'll make an attempt at a beginner lesson in French or I noodle around on an instrument. But this only happens for a couple of days or weeks before it is shelved again, not to be remembered.
For the past year or so, I have been busy. First with school, then work. All while trying to maintain a healthy work-life balance (I haven't been very successful). I would go an entire school term without a day in which I wasn't working or at school. I dropped pretty much everything in my life just to keep going forward and succeed during this difficult period. In order to unwind, I would vegetate and become an utterly passive binge watcher. I didn't read, write, or pursue health or hobby. I just existed to get through the moment.
That desire to learn and know had not abated in me, but merely lay dormant. Only now, after a harsh and bitter winter, can I finally say I feel the urge to grow as a person swell up again. It is a good feeling. I mean to make it last.
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