How can you rekindle passion you once had for a something you once really enjoyed and/or were really good at?

I still am a pretty good writer. But I once wrote prose and mood/color pieces that were dripping with atmosphere and imagination, without sounding pretentious. My teachers in college lauded my writing, and I am always impressed when I find things I wrote even in my late teens.

I also have some excellent early-in-life artwork, house plans, plans for a retreat center, and other projects which I never completed, my main reason was they often had no real life application so many of these projects went unfulfilled because of more pressing matters that had to be done.

I also once was a good Dulcimer player and played in talent shows and with local groups at small town events and folk music events. And I wrote dissertations in college en lieu of class requirements. I wrote detailed sermons and studied and led Bible studies which were in-depth and interesting and full of explanations in Questions and answers. Where did it all go?

I would like to rekindle some of these earlier, unfulfilled disciplines because they were challenging and creative and stimulating. But in more recent years I feel mostly jaded and like all these creative projects and activities are behind me.

I sense Fluther to be comprised of many individuals who deal with reality and have to put aside creative endeavors due to schedules and work, or have to overcome writer’s block.

So, how do you do it?

How do you keep creative energy and activity alive, or rekindle what you were good at in the past? How do you avoid the ‘been there done that’ attitude that its not worth picking up again?

Who knows? What once seemed it had no practical application, maybe someday might apply to something, and something is made out of it.