Daily writing prompt
Are there any activities or hobbies you’ve outgrown or lost interest in over time?
Church attendance comes to mind, and it’s more a matter of losing interest than outgrowing it. This has created an interesting dynamic, because a part of me misses the ritual and a certain discipline.
But something else has emerged, which is characterized by doubt and fatigue. When we do attend somewhere, the liturgy and message are mostly uninspiring anymore, as if I’ve heard it all before, nothing changes, and its relevance is lost. Certain elements are timeless, but this origin story is relatively ancient, and in some respects hasn’t aged well.
It didn’t help to read Sapiens.