Does Anyone Else Have Too Many Hobbies?

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I have too many hobbies, or at least things I want to try or learn. I spent years learning Japanese but never became fluent and jumped around with languages. I want to learn Japanese or Chinese calligraphy. I've tried teaching myself programming on and off with little to show for it, was into Arduino and Raspberry Pi for a while, built myself a retro gaming station. I taught myself how to solve a Rubik's Cube, beating my time and learning the 4x4 is on my to do list. I was into math for a while, read The Humongous Book of series (Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus) got halfway through Calculus before I stopped. I've been trying to teach myself piano for years now and for a while was into making my own music on Flat.

There are so many other things I want to try. Amateur astronomy (too bad there's light pollution where I live), ant-keeping, baking, fencing, woodworking, electronics, etc. There is only so much time in a day and life is only so long, I get bored so easily it's hard to stick with anything. I never seem to finish anything. It's a miracle if I finish a book or a video game. Now that I have a girlfriend and a full time job it's even more difficult, I can't imagine what will happen if I were to have kids...

Right now I'm trying to juggle 3 things. Japanese on Duolingo (low XP goal per day), a little bit of piano practice every day (15-30 min on Super Mario Series for Easy Piano) and whatever free time I have I'm currently putting into trying to learn Python again. I'm always so tired after work though and the weekends are filled with maintenance (groceries, laundry, cleaning, meal prep, etc) and social obligations (it always seems to be someone's birthday or a holiday or something). I also have to try to get some meditation time in every day too, 10 minutes at least, and stay in shape by walking.

Kinda.

I've definitely started a bunch of project ideas over the years I never completed. But I've learned not to do that so much so start fewer things and I've officially abandoned others and given away items or thrown things out to clear space and make room for others or even just clear space for sanity.

I do have quite a lot of sporting goods I don't end up using sometimes for years at a time, but I think that's most adult men. No one wants to get rid of stuff and say they're never gonna do things again. Glad I didn't - one of my Godsons wants me to take him to try snowboarding this Winter.

It's hard to make time to do all the things, especially if I'm stressed/depressed, then instead of having the energy to go do stuff I just routinely go to the beach and unwind in everyone's favourite happy place - which isn't a bad thing.. just that it's at the expense of completing other work or doing other activities.

I just have to waste less time online and Make more time to do things. I've Made time to go motorcycling the last few years, I can Make time to go kiteboarding again etc if I prioritize it above just going to the beach I usually go to.

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I find some interests weaken over time. But the "stuff" from the interest sometimes hangs around a long time...and keeps pestering me to start spending time on that interest again.

I have enough to do that I could keep five (or more) of me fully occupied. Unfortunately I only have one of me...and I think he slacks off a lot.

Since around 12, my worthless corpse has been too clinically depressed and apathetic to engage in hobbies, especially skill based hobbies like programming

I have far too many hobbies, which often involves buying lots of stuff associated with a hobby while I'm thinking "this is the greatest thing ever" only to grow bored of it a few months later. Sigh.

I sort of do.

Then at the end of the day after work, or weekends after several hours a day of work, I'm either too tired, too distracted, or whatever excuses then.

It doesn't help that I don't judge time well.
I could be spending 10 hours doing nothing but find misplaced items or doing a single step -- it doesn't matter what my plans were.

Now whenever I do projects, it's painfully slow.
And then eventually forgetting it exists. So I would need to also maintain the fact that it exists somewhere or just forget it completely.

I'm trying to figure it out by knowing My plans VS what I did, my intentions vs what happens, etc...

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Definitely. I have quit on some hobbies also but i still consider going back to them some day.
(Also studying japanese on duolingo, drawing, and aikido)