Why You Should Have More Hobbies Than You Have Time For
And unfinished projects
I’m a crafter. That encompasses a wide variety of crafts. So many that I had to open an Etsy shop to get some of the many things I make out of my house because I need the room for my books — another hobby. I have an insanely large personal library. I kayak and camp and hike, and I’m making a hobby out of learning languages. There’s much more but that’s enough to illustrate the fact that I have more hobbies than I have time to do them. I think you should too. Hear me out.
The Oxford dictionary says that a hobby is “an activity done regularly in one’s leisure time for pleasure”. It can be just about anything you do for fun. Gardening, candle making, woodworking, sports, collecting, juggling.
Now, some of the things I listed take some time, effort, and tools. Hobbies can be serious ventures. But, they don’t have to be, and they don’t have to be complicated or time intensive. Good news for people juggling a work/life balance. You can learn to do origami quickly, easily, and inexpensively with YouTube videos and some paper. Seriously. Anyone can fold this fish in 30 seconds.
If you actually did the video, you may not take your new skill anywhere and you may never do origami again. But you did just learn a new skill and that’s important…
