Project ideas are my playground
My life has definitely been changing since I wrote that post about how I thought my life would start changing soon. The regular routine of my job has been good for me. I’m much happier having a place to go every weekday, getting to know the people I work with, and contributing consistently to a larger-scale shared effort.
This is all good for my extroverted side, but one thing that tends to keep me happy in life is my interests, especially my projects. I love having some project idea to daydream about, something to invest my feelings into. As I’ve written about before, the work of building the thing sometimes appeals to me less than the idea the project represents. I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing; I have a lot of fond memories of just being in that imaginative space that project ideas bring me to.
I do sometimes work on these projects, to varying degrees of success. A review of the projects topic in my index will illustrate my complicated relationship with actually finishing the projects. But I think gomepage is a great example of a daydream project that came to life well. I’m always proud when I think about what I’ve built here. In a way, it’s actually a good external representation of the imaginative space I’m dreaming in when I get ideas for projects.*
Lately, I haven’t been making time for these kinds of daydream projects like I was able to when I didn’t have a full-time job. I have enough external obligations and goals to keep me occupied. With less free time, I am also trying to prioritize which projects I invest actual time and energy into (e.g., I have some musical work I need to focus on). Between those things and my habitual ineffective use of time (which I am also working on), I’ve kind of left this inner world of imagination untended for a spell.
It’s funny, when I get outside and start having fun and talking to people more, I start getting dreaming about projects again. This weekend was sunny and active, and I started thinking about gomepage and how it’s been a couple months since I added anything to it. Even if I’m not going to start anything new for the time being, it’s nice to know I can come here and still scratch the creative itch.
Do you enjoy daydreaming about projects?
Have you had a life change that left a little less room for your imaginative side?
Let me know your thoughts at my Ctrl-C email: gome @ ctrl-c.club.
* I want to note for myself that this would be an interesting topic to expand on in the future!