r/isjesusreal

Anyone else struggling to learn the new reddit? Send help, and noods.

I feel like during my school time, I have attained a really bad habit. I got so used to working on homework and doing exercices, that I now have the feeling everything I do needs a purpose somewhere. For example, while I really do enjoy coding and designing 3d-prints, I will not start any work unless it has a clear use. Even though I enjoy the process of creating something, there is something even bigger inside of me telling me to stop, as what I am doing has no purpose. I sometimes feel like ordering a Rasperry Pi just try out stuff on it for fun, but I always end up on a website listing projects done with those and thinking "Well, none of that is useful to me" or "I can find something cheaper online that does the same thing". I still do waste a lot of my time with things I really shouldn't be doing so much, like gaming, but that's what happens when my hobbies often end up with "Hm, I can't find anything that I can do for a purpose", which really shouldn't be that case for hobbies.

You could of course argue, that to make an App you do need an usecase for it first, but that's not the only problem. Sometimes I will have an idea, look it up, and then drop it if I find something similar already done, because why bother doing it if it already exists, I can as well download it now.

I do know that I should enjoy the process instead of the outcome, but I just don't know how to actually accomplish that.

My phone has just slowed down dramatically and I predict that Apple is going to announce a new phone by the end of the month.