I felt exactly the same way, after I started learning my first language (C++). It was all very interesting (although often frustrating because there was just so much to read and dig) and challenging at the beginning, that the hours were just passing by me like minutes. Some time after starting my first actual project, it got..well, boring and slow for a while there, felt exactly like you said - boring, faded, uninspiring, even though a totally new world of possibilities just opened to me right there! And I still feel like that often, it confuses me. Maybe it's because we're used to watching all these movies and reading all these articles about how successfull coders crack the biggest international bank, or how they do all these risky exciting perfect things, but we seldomly hear about the struggles in between. It is nice that you found your inspiration, and I bet you didn't even think it would be there, on freeCodeCamp, it actually simply found you :) Very nice post, and I'm glad to know that someone like you out there managed to jump beyond fear, one more time, and one more time, and more to come :)