That’s just the process of getting older, the “pasts” you lived at some point become more numerous than your present state.
No reason to worry.
The things you are doing now have grown on that rich field of experience and maybe don’t seem so ( massively nostalgia-tinged) spectacular as what you did in the past, but they are valid nonetheless.
It’s more that we don’t do anything now because we’re too exhausted to enjoy hobbies or have the time for them.
Yes, that is a thing I also experienced, but hopefully that will change again also for you.
E.g. for me, with our kids being out of the worst by now I have found the time and energy again to pursue new hobbies, as well as resurrecting some old ones, like PC gaming, which I had abandoned for nearly twenty years because “growing up”.
Are you calling me old!?
Well, the fact that sub-20-year-olds don’t give a shit when you tell them they seem older than they are, means that anyone complaining about being called old, is old per definition.
Soooo… basically you just identified yourself as old.
I used to rule the world
I have a trick. I inject my hobbies into everyday chores. Mostly, it consist of solving any problem I come across with the 3D printer. Balcony door broken? -> 3D printer. Build a cat safety net around the balcony? -> 3D printer. Fill my tax declaration? -> let’s do that one next week. Put the laundry to dry ? You guessed it ! It’s 3D printer.
I used to play keyboard. I used to do killer art collabs in colored pencil and gel pen. I used to do shit in mspaint that people think you can only do in photoshop. I used to imagine martial arts action scenes any DBZ fan would jizz their drawers over.
Shit happened. Life happened. Priorities changed. I miss what I lost, but the only reason I haven’t gone back to recapture them is because of the overriding importance of the life’s work I’ve begun since then.
