Growing desires

Today and yesterday, I've been struck with an inclination to learn Finnish. I don't actually know why. I've wanted to learn it for a while now, but I've got languages I'm studying already. I am studying Italian, and want to pick up on Japanese again, as well as keep up with the German. It's difficult to limit my desires which keep on growing.

When I was younger, and learning languages a bit more often, I would always want to learn loads of languages. Finnish was one, but also: Icelandic, Turkish, Kazakh, Armenian, Georgian, Basque, Abkhazian, ... I started a little on many of them, and even some others, like Russian, etc. And I learnt Norwegian and Polish for several years before dropping them, and have since started learning and dropped Latin too.

I sort of end up getting this desire to try them out, even just to do it as an act of leisure. Yet, I know that even this "leisure" comes at the cost of actually doing the thing I want to. As in, if I'm currently studying Italian, then why would I spend my spare time studying Finnish instead of Italian?

I know I shouldn't jump too much from one thing to the other, but take one thing at a time and commit to it. Sometimes it's really difficult to do that, though!