i read this blog post, an extract from it, actually. i'm always looking, listening, and waiting for an opportunity to learn, and this extract was a perfect chance.

the most fulfilled people i know tend to have two traits. they’re insatiably curious—about new ideas, experiences, information and people. and they seem to exist in a state of perpetual, self-inflicted unhappiness.
these people tend to have a project they’re working on. an essay. a poem. they’re reading wittgenstein for the first time. or rereading proust. they’re rehearsing for a dance performance. learning about carbon capture technologies. making a track in ableton. knitting a jumper. testing out a new recipe. improving their cantonese. taking a painting class…
 -celine nguyen, personal canon

as someone who's got over a lot of inertia of beginnings this semester (proof being right here, this), my eyes drift around for anything i can do next, and they've seemed to fall everywhere at once. i can't seem to decide anything to learn, because i want to learn everything on the face of the earth.

there's so much more to learn about everything in this whole wide world actually
 -anna, after watching this video

and i can't even put into words the extent to which i agree. celine terms this flitting between projects divine discontent, and i cannot take credit for the terminology, but it feels fitting. or, at least in part because i feel that way sometimes. i aspire to be the kind of person people speak about like this, in a mild curiosity at the least. be at least a little unpredictable, you know?