This may not be my last post of this year, but is surely the last post of the year, from Kerala. I'd be leaving for Kolkata tomorrow 20th December, for two weeks in home, amidst the unusually merry atmosphere of winter! But then again I wont be reaching before morning of 22nd! For a pessimistic and ignorant mind this will be a tragic factor!! Why?? Well isn't it obvious?! Because somewhere in between 20th and 22nd comes 21st! 21st December, the end of the world! The day that most of us have been waiting for! No not for death, but for a laugh! I was reading a report in the papers that 21st December should be declared as the "New Generation's Fools Day", removing the age old concept of 1st April! So are we gonna die?? Oh yes everyone has to die at some point, but I don't think 21st December would cause us any harm on the front of World's End! "No it's not the world's end!!" It would however continue to be the 'shortest day of the year,' which is quite good enough! And on personal level it's the birthday of my good friend Arnab! However for those of us who are quite regular in social networking sites like Facebook, 21st is going to be a nightmare that we all have to endure, with all sorts of stupid posts and poor jokes about that day! :( So in a way I'm glad that I'd be in train on that day! :)
It's a common concept that the time after the exams is the most boring time for a student, when things stop moving, the pace of life becomes slow, and you end up battling against absolute stagnation for the next 1 month at least. I have to say I always look forward to these times. It's the best time to keep up with your hobbies. So even though I would agree past 20 days have been slow moving, they have however not been uninteresting, especially if you have so many hobbies like I have! And some how it's hard associating the word slow when you live in a boys hostel. There's always something or the other happening.
I guess herein lies the importance of keeping hobbies.. Okay there is no necessity of multiple hobbies for one person, just one to two hobbies at a time is enough. Having said that wasting precious hours in Facebook or else Chatting for the most of the times in your mobile phones or on yahoo and gtalk, can't qualify as a hobby! Unfortunately about 30% of youngsters comprising of late teens and young adults of up to the age of 24 are absorbed in these two activities most of the time, and consider any other activity (how much creative they may be) as a waste of time.. There was an article a few days back in The Indian Express by someone (don't remember who) explaining the negative effect the three C's have on the mental growth of Indian teenagers. He claimed these three C's to be- ''Cricket", "Computer" and "Cinema"! Bit of a sensationalist claim isn't it? Look the fact is too much of all the 3 C's is harmful, which is true enough! But how much harmful are they in controlled quantity? Computer has had probably the most effect on the teenagers of the above three. Mainly after the rise of internet. But I'm not gonna lecture or talk about the perils of Internet using. Its already a hot topic and I don't need to emphasis on that. More established people than me probably can enlighten us about it! :p
My point is, Its good to have a hobby, its good to have a creative extra-curricular activity that leads to positive brain development. It can be anything, and as simple from a cricket card collection to remembering the capital of various countries, to listening to music (which by the way is the most common hobby in the world), cooking, reading various books, writing, to playing various sports. It may change with people and with age. I had a friend who had a strange hobby of collecting the caps of cold drinks! It however ended after he reached a certain age. My cousin on the other hand had an unique hobby of collecting matchbox logos of various matchboxes found in the different places. This again changed when he started growing up, when he became interested in stamp collecting, and at somepoint was even interested in becoming a Philatelist! One of my Best friend has Photography as a hobby. Some people have a strange hobby of "studying and meeting various different people", while some others are outdoor bugs and like travelling, trekking and explore the adventurous corners of the world to feed their curious mind..
At some point hobbies may become passion, when you want more than only to feed your curious mind, when you are so passionate about your hobby you want it to define your life. But for most people hobbies are always there as a stress buster, to use your free time to something which you like doing (provided its creative :p)
On a personal note, honestly speaking, I have always struggled to keep up with my hobbies. In my case the problem is a bit different. I have too many hobbies! Its a problem of plenty! When I was young my (less than 10 years old) only hobby was playing! Till i entered my teens things stayed pretty much to that. When I was 12 I took up the hobby of reading (English Novels mainly) to go along with Cricket. (My knowledge and interests in sports still remains quite high. one of my present hobby is watching European football and cheering for my Childhood club Manchester United!) I was briefly interested in stamp collecting as well (in which case the interest went away as fast as it had come). Then came basketball which stayed till I passed out of Standard 10th! While I was 14 years old I got introduced to the world of English Classic Rock. I have to say for about a year it the music seemed only noise and the lyrics only too much shouting to me and nothing else till of course I could differentiate between the various sounds. This started my genuine interest in music, which still stays as one of my best hobbies. I took up learning guitar as a hobby in my college days, which i still do, as it is not easy to learn to play everything in guitar, which in the words of my Guitar Teacher is-
"Guitar is like an ocean. Like the universe, it is limitless. Each day and everyday a new tune can be made and is made out of it. New music is created. There is no ending to learning to play guitar. Even I am only a student, even though I know a lot, but in greater sense my knowledge is not even a quarter of what there is to learn, rhythms to follow, tunes to play and melodies to create!"
Travelling is another activity I had been quite keen on developing as a hobby but I never quite found the time to do that. While I was in School life I started the habit of writing stuffs. Mostly poems. However very few of them were completed. I had the same problem with writing stories, they always had an incomplete ending. It's like those famous words "He who knows the art to begin, should also know the art to end." Nonetheless I still write sometimes! Probably my best hobby is "simply sitting and doing nothing!" :-)
The thing is its better to have 2-3 hobbies rather than to have plenty of them and ultimately struggle to juggle them altogether. But people should have at least two.
There are some people though who don't have any hobby at all. They have a nice excuse for that as well. "We have friends! Who needs a hobby!?" Friendship is important, the most important may be. But sometimes its good to give ourselves some time as well. We owe that to us at least!!
So what's your hobby?
P.S- This may well be my last post before Christmas.. So I wish all of you a "MERRY CHRISTMAS". :-)
(with a touch of creativity) -
It's a common concept that the time after the exams is the most boring time for a student, when things stop moving, the pace of life becomes slow, and you end up battling against absolute stagnation for the next 1 month at least. I have to say I always look forward to these times. It's the best time to keep up with your hobbies. So even though I would agree past 20 days have been slow moving, they have however not been uninteresting, especially if you have so many hobbies like I have! And some how it's hard associating the word slow when you live in a boys hostel. There's always something or the other happening.
I guess herein lies the importance of keeping hobbies.. Okay there is no necessity of multiple hobbies for one person, just one to two hobbies at a time is enough. Having said that wasting precious hours in Facebook or else Chatting for the most of the times in your mobile phones or on yahoo and gtalk, can't qualify as a hobby! Unfortunately about 30% of youngsters comprising of late teens and young adults of up to the age of 24 are absorbed in these two activities most of the time, and consider any other activity (how much creative they may be) as a waste of time.. There was an article a few days back in The Indian Express by someone (don't remember who) explaining the negative effect the three C's have on the mental growth of Indian teenagers. He claimed these three C's to be- ''Cricket", "Computer" and "Cinema"! Bit of a sensationalist claim isn't it? Look the fact is too much of all the 3 C's is harmful, which is true enough! But how much harmful are they in controlled quantity? Computer has had probably the most effect on the teenagers of the above three. Mainly after the rise of internet. But I'm not gonna lecture or talk about the perils of Internet using. Its already a hot topic and I don't need to emphasis on that. More established people than me probably can enlighten us about it! :p
My point is, Its good to have a hobby, its good to have a creative extra-curricular activity that leads to positive brain development. It can be anything, and as simple from a cricket card collection to remembering the capital of various countries, to listening to music (which by the way is the most common hobby in the world), cooking, reading various books, writing, to playing various sports. It may change with people and with age. I had a friend who had a strange hobby of collecting the caps of cold drinks! It however ended after he reached a certain age. My cousin on the other hand had an unique hobby of collecting matchbox logos of various matchboxes found in the different places. This again changed when he started growing up, when he became interested in stamp collecting, and at somepoint was even interested in becoming a Philatelist! One of my Best friend has Photography as a hobby. Some people have a strange hobby of "studying and meeting various different people", while some others are outdoor bugs and like travelling, trekking and explore the adventurous corners of the world to feed their curious mind..
At some point hobbies may become passion, when you want more than only to feed your curious mind, when you are so passionate about your hobby you want it to define your life. But for most people hobbies are always there as a stress buster, to use your free time to something which you like doing (provided its creative :p)
On a personal note, honestly speaking, I have always struggled to keep up with my hobbies. In my case the problem is a bit different. I have too many hobbies! Its a problem of plenty! When I was young my (less than 10 years old) only hobby was playing! Till i entered my teens things stayed pretty much to that. When I was 12 I took up the hobby of reading (English Novels mainly) to go along with Cricket. (My knowledge and interests in sports still remains quite high. one of my present hobby is watching European football and cheering for my Childhood club Manchester United!) I was briefly interested in stamp collecting as well (in which case the interest went away as fast as it had come). Then came basketball which stayed till I passed out of Standard 10th! While I was 14 years old I got introduced to the world of English Classic Rock. I have to say for about a year it the music seemed only noise and the lyrics only too much shouting to me and nothing else till of course I could differentiate between the various sounds. This started my genuine interest in music, which still stays as one of my best hobbies. I took up learning guitar as a hobby in my college days, which i still do, as it is not easy to learn to play everything in guitar, which in the words of my Guitar Teacher is-
"Guitar is like an ocean. Like the universe, it is limitless. Each day and everyday a new tune can be made and is made out of it. New music is created. There is no ending to learning to play guitar. Even I am only a student, even though I know a lot, but in greater sense my knowledge is not even a quarter of what there is to learn, rhythms to follow, tunes to play and melodies to create!"
Travelling is another activity I had been quite keen on developing as a hobby but I never quite found the time to do that. While I was in School life I started the habit of writing stuffs. Mostly poems. However very few of them were completed. I had the same problem with writing stories, they always had an incomplete ending. It's like those famous words "He who knows the art to begin, should also know the art to end." Nonetheless I still write sometimes! Probably my best hobby is "simply sitting and doing nothing!" :-)
The thing is its better to have 2-3 hobbies rather than to have plenty of them and ultimately struggle to juggle them altogether. But people should have at least two.
There are some people though who don't have any hobby at all. They have a nice excuse for that as well. "We have friends! Who needs a hobby!?" Friendship is important, the most important may be. But sometimes its good to give ourselves some time as well. We owe that to us at least!!
So what's your hobby?
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| MUSIC IS THE MOST COMMON HOBBY IN THE WORLD , ACCOUNTING FOR OVER 70% OF WORLD POPULATION WHO HAVE A HOBBY |
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| TOO MANY WORDS, TOO LITTLE SPACE MERRY CHRISTMAS! |
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