The urge to make something is a gift. Plenty of people lose it. Keep yours fed.

The pull toward making things is more fragile than it feels. It does not get taken away by anything dramatic. It fades in people who went years without using it, until they can no longer remember what it felt like. Treating it as a permanent trait is how it quietly goes.

Feeding it does not take much. Give it one hour this week where you make something with no purpose beyond making it, and notice whether the urge comes back louder afterward.