I'm a cyclical hobbyist…

… and I’m finally okay with it! Last week I pulled up my for-fun acoustic-coding Go project the last commit was from April 27th, exactly 3 months ago. Well that just smells like yet another abandoned project. But instead of feeling bad, I tied up the main functionality and added a small feature (after getting reacquainted with the code). It started as an elaborate joke and my mate and I had a chuckle, delightful. In the last year or so I’ve realized that I’m a cyclical hobbyist and instead of feeling guilty for not doing my hobbies consistently (I know it sounds ridiculous) I have accepted that! This means that my projects don’t have to be abandoned projects, they can just be on hold and I can pick them up when I’m interested again. This is fundamentally different than being a serial hobbyist, where you’re chasing novelty; not saying I won’t add hobbies but I genuinely like the thing and come back to them. Part of me is sulking that I’m learning basic things like this about myself…