Could be all sorts of reasons though. I am a guy who loves or rather loved programming, learning every possible language, doing all sorts of projects in my spar

Could be all sorts of reasons though. I am a guy who loves or rather loved programming, learning every possible language, doing all sorts of projects in my spare time. Yet nobody can predict the future. I never would have thought I'd burn out/get depressed or whatever happened. I am not sure how to label it but I certainly lost the spark big time. I had a long period where I frankly enjoyed doing laundry more than programming. I am not kidding. That can be a bitter experience because so much of my life was centered around programming and that is how I kind of defined myself. It is actually a time I wish I had not been so in love with programming and it was just a job, because then I would have had another life to fall back on. If programming consumes too big part of your life, you are screwed if you should happen to lose the interest. I am slowly getting back to enjoying it more, but my take away is that shit can happen to anybody. Doesn't matter how excited and passionate your are about it now.