What is love?

I fall in love quickly, especially with new hobbies. There's something magical about binge learning: reading all about a topic, browsing its subreddit, watching youtube videos for how to do it, having it take over your daily thoughts.

Some miscellaneous examples of this that I've experienced have been:

Shaving (why do I even need this? I'm Asian...)
Plants
Cooking
Cocktails
Leatherworking

I still actively engage in these hobbies from time to time.

Love of my life

I want to talk about my first love, which is fashion. I fell head over heels with fashion and got engaged. I have a full closet of overly expensive clothes and shoes, I had aspirational pieces that I've wanted to buy in pictures or runway shows, and then acquired them. Today I am proud to say that I have more or less completed my wardrobe to satisfaction.

But what do you do after you achieve all your goals? What do you do when you reach or even surpass your role models?

I've been struggling with what to with my beloved hobby. I've spent so much time thinking about it that it's sad to see it come to a conclusion.

Life after death: what's next?

Here are some ideas that I've come up with in order to give my hobby new life. For clarity, I consider my primary relationship with fashion to be a consumer.

I can transition from consumer to a different role, still in the fashion world:

Taking pictures of my wardrobe and modelling. This gives back to community that inspired me in the first place.
Buying and selling clothes. This is one of the larger engaging activites I had in fashion, and allows me to grow my wardrobe.
Designing my own clothing line. This would be a creative outlet to make jackets or clothes to my own specifications.

I can reincarnate fashion into tangentially aesthetic focused hobbies:

Interior decorating. It's like fashion but for a home? And far more expensive...
Leatherworking. It's like fashion, but very Americana? And ultimately ladders into making a leather jacket.

Live from the deathbed

Having been enamoured by fashion for over a decade, it's scary to me to experience my hobby dying.

A lot of my friends know me as "the fashion guy". It is effectively part of my core identity

Maybe it's time to reach maturity and turn this into a new outlet.

I have this mental image of having climbed this large mountain, and I've made it to the very peak. But the view around me is just more mountains at a distance. Both higher and farther. Where do I go?

So I'm seeking advice if I have any readers who are hikers: what do you do when you've reached the top of your climb? Do you just take selfies at the top and make your way back down?

Please send me a message if you've experienced this as well.