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Me with literally all my hobbies. I sometimes beat myself up over it, thinking like “ugh why can’t I finish any of these drawings instead of starting more new ones”.

But this post reminds me that the joy in these things is in the process of making them - I do them to have fun. Not to say that finally seeing a finished product can’t be satisfying or fulfilling - it usually is - but I don’t think that’s worth beating myself up for all the ones I haven’t finished.

At the end of the day it’s far, far better to start 100 projects you actually like and enjoy doing, than to never start any at all because you can’t motivate yourself to finish the first one you started. It’s exactly as they say: perfect is the enemy of good. So next time, I’ll tell myself: It doesn’t have to be perfect, just “good”. Whatever that is to you. Because a perfect life is lived striving, not for perfection, but to do good things.

Draw badly. Write nonsensically. Embroider messily. Burn what you bake and cook. Get paint everywhere. Read half a book. Lose your mind for a bit. Plant things. Have faith in the process. Abandon 70 wood-carving projects. Get a kit and do some of it and never return to it. Get comfortable with sucking and losing motivation. Continue to create with reckless abandon.