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Why do We Need a Hobby?
As we keep growing up, both physically and mentally, there are certain things in the world that we hold on to and that shape us and our growth as people. We try our hand at different things such as drawing, writing, dancing, gardening, etc. and we find some of them much more interesting than others. We may want to explore these things further. These activities then become what we call ‘hobbies’.
As human beings, we try to find joy and productivity in the things we do. Hobbies may not often be seen as productive but to have one (or even more than one) can bring a person extreme joy and relieve them from the tiredness of the day. A hobby is also a great way through which we get to learn new skills.
There are many ways having a hobby can prove to be helpful. Below is a list of things which can be associated with having a hobby:
- Having a hobby, especially one that requires a lot of creative effort, can keep your brain healthy. A healthy brain can cope well with novel situations that arise.
- Your hobbies can help in providing relief from stress. Having something to do that you are passionate about can help you in distracting yourself from all the stressful aspects of your life. Even an hour spent on doing what you love can prove beneficial.
- You can make new friends, who have similar hobbies as you do or meet new people by sharing your hobby, or by teaching people about it. If you get good at it, you might turn your hobby into something you do full time as well.
- Hobbies can inspire more creativity in us. As we explore our creative side more and more, we get better at connecting with ourselves and the world.
My Hobbies
Although I enjoy doing multiple things, if I am asked to choose one that provides me with pleasure as well as is beneficial for my overall abilities, I will choose reading books over anything. Of course everyone is unique and each person’s hobby will be different from mine, so when I say I find reading the most interesting of all, I am talking just about myself. I find reading to be an extremely fun activity, and those who share my passion for reading will agree to the points mentioned below:
- Each time I pick up a new book, I enter a completely different world that is whole and unique in itself. Reading gives me access to people and places that I cannot meet or see otherwise. You can visit places from a chair or a corner of any one place. You can read about real people, their lives or you can prefer to read about people who do not exist. Either way, you are making an addition of tremendous knowledge to your brain.
- Reading requires a lot of creative and intellectual effort on one’s part to understand new things. If you have to sharpen your mind, try reading. You can start with a chapter a day.
- You can create pictures or images in your mind just as you like. As you are reading story books or novels, you form mental pictures of the people and places mentioned in the book.
- You can increase your command over any language through reading. No matter what language you are reading in, one of the benefits that comes from reading books is that you learn how to use that language and also learn new words in the language, thus increasing your vocabulary. It also leads to an improvement in your grammatical sense.
- Reading can help one understand the world and human life in a much better sense. It gives us access to different types of emotions and feelings and how people experience them. It can turn us into sympathetic people who can relate to other people’s joy and pain.
- Books are just like a friend that can show us that there are different sides to the world to the people living in it. Just like every friend we have has a unique side to them and their own personality, each new book has something fresh to offer too in the same way.
Although every hobby offers some kind of a distraction from our own worlds, I have found that my hobby offers me a kind escape when things don’t seem to be going well around me. A good book can offer me another place, maybe filled with happiness and adventure, and I can lose myself in another world for a little while. It can elevate my mood.
A good book never leaves your side, you find yourself visiting and revisiting it. You find instances of it in the world around you. I can rely on curling up with a book and travelling to some magical world anytime, and that is why I enjoy reading and would recommend it to others as well.
