[nonbirithm]

You can still believe that a project which becomes a shed is desired by an audience, however niche, and not care as much about getting popularity, which gives you an excuse to keep working. You can let a project that you still get enjoyment out of consume the rest of your life. It's scary that the thing you willingly do to get away from obligation and 9 to 5 work can be at the same time the most fulfilling and most debilitating thing you do.

It's even harder to detach when your shed is your idea of "making something out of your life", when you imagine the alternative being years of wasted potential suppressing your life's true desires. Don't people always say to never put off what you want to do right now until it's too late? But for someone unable to detach, I'm still not sure if remaining dispassionate is worse than the chronic issues that arise from lack of sleep and similar from never giving up and earning the label of "tenacious".

[foateaca]

Your very insightful comment seems to embrace a principal I see rarely remembered but one I find a kind of lost achievement of the Enlightenment- there are things worth doing for their own sake, not requiring further justification. For me this became clear about so many meaningful parts of life after finally starting to understand what Thomas Nagel meant in his essay The Absurd.

[greatpostman]

Wow this captures a lot of my current dilemma.

[motoxpro]

Very beautifully put.