/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I've been in a funk with Touhou for more than a year due to hitting what feels like my skill ceiling and all attempts to surpass it leading to just pure anguish. I tried playing on Hard for a while and it didn't work out, then I tried No-Bomb runs on Normal with similar results. Today I thought the thing to snap me out of it would be to replay LoLK on Pointdevice and not bomb since I bombed on my first playthrough and swore never to touch the game again.

I had closed off these memories, /jp/. I had forgotten how painful this is.
What keeps you going, anons? I'm sure most people here are much better at the game than I am, but there had to have been a point where you spent months trying to overcome where you were at and just not getting anything accomplished. What kept you pushing forward?