Context: Matt Colville's latest YouTube video, "Art vs. Existential Dread", inspired me to start looking at a new, non-TTRPG-adjacent hobby.
Running TTRPGs is, IMO, a selfless act. We might find them fun to run, but I don't think we run them specifically for ourselves. Everything I do right now feeds into either work or TTRPGs. Everything I do feeds into others' wants and needs.
I want to feed me, so I want to learn a new skill.
Something that made me feel that this might be necessary: when I brought this up to my partner, she was mystified. "Why do you want to do that?"
Just to try to learn it.
"But for what?"
And that feels like why we usually approach hobbies: "to share with people" or "maybe I can monetize this" or something.
Sometimes, we should be more selfish, especially when it nourishes us to be more able to give to others in the future.