Why I Started Writing on Medium?

Are you someone who was very ambitious, very keen to learn something new, loved experimenting, wanted to do everything no matter what it took, you always wanted to try it? but all of sudden you’re just not able to do anything nor want to put any efforts? feel like everything is just a waste of energy?

I remember it was the last two years when Covid happened and I was very happy as I recently joined University and I was really excited to visit the campus and would enjoy my new life, but who knew Covid would be ending all that excitement, but still I was excited to get started for my new life as I would be still meeting new people and collaborate with them.

Few months before College I started Coding on my own and I wanted to learn everything, I started learning C first then jumped to C++ then python and more as I was really excited to learn new stuff, and that’s not it, i wasn’t sure what I wanted to do, i was jumping from mobile development to web development to game development with Unity and even 3D modelling with blender I was super enthusiastic. BUT……………..

Fast forward to 2022 as the new year began, restrictions began to layoff, I finally got to go to college and I was happy, met new people had fun and I kinda left coding behind and my interest for writing code began to diminish, as I was doing the same thing every single day. Wake up watch video lectures on YouTube, Udemy etc. and keep on looping and things began to worsen as I wouldn't write a single line of code for weeks, i didn't wanted to. And this wasn’t just limited to Coding I didn’t like anything, I did not wanted to do anything new, no enthusiasm. I just keep binge watching on YouTube that’s it.

I started searching on YouTube, Quora for similar people like me and i related their story to mine’s and I could figure out what I was missing and what’s actually happened to me.

During the lockdown period all classes were online so no one really cared about studying for tests, so did I, so technically I kept just reading a day before the exams and write the exam next day and I barely had to use my brain to pass the exam, this kept running for a whole year, I could easily figure out that I was not doing anything for which I had to use my brain so much. As this led to my brain become rusty (not literally).

This led to me thinking that if I can get what I want without using my brain, why do I use my brain power as there was an easy way to do it using Google, so why should I waste my energy. Similarly for my Coding journey, i just had to follow tutorials and make the app they’re making, so I could show it on my resume and wouldn't have to put any effort.

I totally regret it, because if I don’t do anything on my own, if I don’t try to fix my problems on my own I won’t love to do anything because I won’t get to know it nor get the experience.

That’s the reason I started writing blogs on Medium, Quora and now I code regularly because that’s what I love to do and enjoy it.

Thank you so much! for 50 followers, I really appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. :)

If you’re someone who feels same situations like me, please comment I'd love to help to get you out of such situations, sometimes you just need to try new things, figure out different ways to solve a problems.