For most of my 20s I had all these ambitions of making something big, beautiful, this pure expression of my creative energies After burning myself out failing

For most of my 20s I had all these ambitions of making something big, beautiful, this pure expression of my creative energies After burning myself out failing for years to even pick a project, get started, stick with it for more than a few hours, and all the while feeling more and more depressed about that fact, I’ve experienced something called “ego exhaustion”. I gave up, which over time allowed me space to stop being so hard on myself, and start to recover, and I’m finally feeling the beginnings of creative energy coming back again. I know better now, that pushing on that energy won’t help anything, so I’m just focused on nurturing it and seeing where it takes me. For now, that’s happiness. Later, maybe I’ll make something big after all. If not, that’s okay. This is something I’ve heard happens to a lot of people as they get closer to the middle part of life