🪴 New directions in learning

It’s becoming harder for me to learn things with intention. Back in college, no one had to push me. I had this natural drive, an unintentional push that kept me curious and eager to explore new topics.

But now, at 28, that spark feels dim. I no longer feel the same excitement for exploration, and the urge to learn something new seems to have faded.

Things have changed, and life is slow now. It just revolves around three things: sleep, food, and money. Even the job seems to be only for money, and that is a bitter truth.

I have no worry or complaint about this slow life, but the important aspect is that I have started to enjoy it. I don’t see anything wrong in that. When I look back and try to reflect on my career, the hunger curve had once been a steep rise, and now it is almost flat.

I still have the hunger to try new things in life. Maybe my interests have changed. I am more into home décor and food exploration these days. I like to understand life, not from reading, but by living it.

Once I believed that a person who stopped learning would rust. But now I believe it is wise to learn only what is needed. There is no requirement for a conventional mode of learning. Learning can also come through experience and trying things on your own. Even mistakes are a way of learning.

Sometimes, every aspect of life need not have a reason, it's all a part of the new learning experience and I just try to dive in it and survive.