# Novelty *Published on April 18, 2024* **_novelty:_** _the quality of being new, original or unusual._ I've had this thought in the back of my head for the past couple months about novelty, and how my life lacks it. Everything I do is structured to a T, and there's little room for letting the novelty of new things to take effect. This in a way is what I need to survive but I'm starting to feel like a little novelty every now and then does the soul good. Lately I've been exploring game development and I'm finding it quite cool to be a beginner again and needing to rethink foundational stuff again. I've never thought of myself as a **programmer** , instead liking to think of myself as a _problem solver_ that _sometimes_ uses code to solve problems. I like when I find a solution that doesn't require code to solve elegantly, but then again I like being able to use code to solve problems equally. Maybe this is the imposter syndrome in me talking, but I struggle to feel like my skills are adequate when you could compare to people submitting to Ruby on Rails, or doing other open-source projects. But I suppose I've always thought of myself in this way and I've been okay with it, because to me all I care about is solving problems for myself, or other people at the end of the day. Coding is just one path to the end. So yes, novelty: I'm enjoying the newness of game development. Having to google things again, not knowing the "best" way to solve a problem and just... coding with imperfections again. If you solve a problem you're trying to solve, does it matter if it's not perfect? What even is perfection? Be a little more novel in your day to day, you might find it refreshing. --- By [Andrea Fomera](https://afomera.dev) | [View original post](https://afomera.dev/posts/2024-04-18-novelty)