There's so much I'm enthralled by. New knowledge intrigues me and keeps me wanting for more and more. My curiosity is endless and I have an insatiable need to learn new things and pick up new skills. I want to be this and that and this and that. Some may call me a 'multi-potentiate' - a person with a lot of different interests and the ability to excel in multiple different fields. Keyword here: excel. The problem is my interests are wide-ranging, seemingly all over the place and I might be something of a 'Jack-of-all-trades', meaning that I'm at best mediocre at all of them, living up to the second half of the adage: '...master of none'.

I pick up a lot of new interests and start new hobbies quite easily and invest time and energy into them but they don't seem to go anywhere or lead to anything substantial. To excel at any given pursuit requires work, dedication and singular focus. How do you then excel at all of them when it seems your attention is divided? It makes sense to think of one stealing resources away from the other. But, I cannot even fathom just picking one thing and sticking to it while doing away with the rest. It seems the way my brain is wired requires me to be on top of a bunch of different, seemingly unrelated things at the same time. How do i even pick The One? Another part of me thinks that maybe they're not all supposed to lead to anything serious. Some things are supposed to be just hobbies. A friend once said to me, "You don't have to transform all your pastimes into careers or monetize all your hobbies". A concept completely antithetical to this social media age of monetizing everything!

Being someone with many interests is fun. I am rarely ever bored and I go through life wide-eyed and eager, hoping to bump into some fun shiny new discovery everyday. Being endlessly curious means i just want to keep knowing and knowing and learning and learning. Mention any random topic and I'll most likely be at least interested to look it up on Google and most times than not, I'll fall down a Wikipedia rabbit-hole, captivated by all the new, mostly useless information seeping into my brain cells and voila! I have a new interest.

Life can be quite slow and bland a lot of the time, so I'm somewhat thankful for this aspect of my personality - for keeping things in motion, keeping things interesting, keeping me occupied. The perks to this are it makes for a well-rounded, interesting person. A multidisciplinary human living a multi-faceted existence. My brain is like a repository of random fun facts about literally anything. Do i need to know any of this? No. But my brain absolutely craves the extra activity!

The downside to endless curiosity, the aforementioned"curse", is a perpetually divided attention. The curse is that all my passions are performed at sub-optimal levels because i am unable to throw my everything behind just one thing.

I am exploring ways to navigate through all this. What's a great way to balance all of my passions so none of them suffer at the expense of another? Is balance even possible?

I don't have the answers but it's something I'm exploring everyday.