What Happened When I Stopped Showing Up : Deepti Krishna
Learning Loop – What Happened When I Stopped Showing Up By Deepti Krishna | March 2026 In mid-February, I stopped writing. Not because I ran out of ideas, and not because I lost interest. If anything, my mind was doing the opposite jumping between thoughts, overanalyzing everything, struggling to stay with one thing long enough to finish it. I have ADHD, which means focus is not always linear for me. Some days, I can sit for hours and go deep into a problem. Other days, even starting feels like resistance. For weeks before that, I had been consistent with my “Learning Loop” series. I was learning new concepts, writing about them, and sharing my progress. It felt structured. It felt disciplined. It felt like I was moving forward. And in many ways, I was. But that version of consistency had a condition it worked only when I had control over my time. Exams took that control away. The Illusion of Consistency Before this break, I believed I understood...
