Diving into your interests and working on hobbies is a lot of fun, but what is driving you?
The lure of imagination land is strong. There’s no boss, no deadlines, no school or homework. The only problems you have are pre-agreed upon. You know it’ll be hard to sneak past the dragon and use your ray-gun to “liberate” that treasure chest. You know the road home will be fought with hazards, brigands, and of course a murky swamp where you get stuck for three weeks and eventually die by vampire frog attacks.
You opted-in to all that. You might not necessarily be running away from something in your real life. But for a bit, you don’t have to deal with it. It doesn’t matter about global or national politics, who your family is, or how much treasure is in the chest.
It’s like watching a movie and forgetting for a bit that you have to get up and go to work in the morning, AGAIN. You just went to work yesterday, and they want you to go in again tomorrow?
And of course, balance is important. If you’re spending so much time building foam houses that your real house is falling down, you may have a problem. It’s easy to get drawn in. Small projects are more manageable that big ones. Also, if you leave a hobby project unfinished in the basement for a year, big whoop. But if you don’t finish installing those kitchen cabinets, well, that’s an issue.
So what are you running away from? What don’t you have the dexterity to overcome in real life? Maybe you have more initiative than you think. I bet you can make both spaces work for you.
