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God Save My Hobbies

TOPIC: PHILOSOPHY

A stupid question

I'm confused about something. How many hobbies should someone have? Does it have to be a fixed number, one that shouldn't change during the course of one's life? Or is someone allowed to have as many hobbies as their very short life allows? It's a question I'm sure most of us have thought about once in our life; everyone has a hobby, right? I'm sorry, but I can't imagine a life without any hobbies. That must be the most boring life in the entire universe. Anyways, moving on...

What I think

I have had many, many hobbies in life by now. Well, let's fire up some of those old neurons of mine, shall we? Here's a list of everything I took as a hobby and dropped soon after—from a few days to a few years.

As you can see, I have tried many things in my life. Many things. And yet, I mastered none. That is what I get for trying to master too many things. That's why, in my homepage, I caution people about trying too many things in their life. I had too many aspirations, too many goals, and too many fantasies. Perhaps with more lifetimes I could really have mastered so many of my hobbies, but I do not have that option. I was only given one life to spend. This is my only chance I can get on living.

Nowadays, I only maintain a few hobbies. Six if I list them broadly. I also allow myself to have three interests at any moment of time. This is to satisfy my curiosity. For me, interests can change but hobbies cannot. I mean that. A promise to myself is to keep the same six hobbies for the rest of my miserable years in living.

My fantastic six

Life is a road where you need to drop a few things

I know. It's a stupid heading, but it was the only one that came to mind. I've had to leave behind so many things I loved in life, from my friends in Florida, to my love for music (I only quit music when I realized it literally taught me nothing; I'd rather listen to French podcasts and learn something new). I've had to leave behind bad habits and hobbies and move on. Like my old Webtoon addiction. For the love of God, please don't go to Webtoon. That website is a drug. It's way too addictive.

If only I had fixed my hobbies years before, I could have really become something. Perhaps I could have been a self-published author by now, or read a thousand and one books, or be a professional self-taught AI researcher. But, life is life. Everything happens for a reason and everyone moves on without you. One cannot mourn the past and expect it to come back. It's gone, and there is no price tag to buy the past. One must accept this twisted truth.

We have come to the ending （＞人＜；）

I can't promise success. I can't really promise anything, but I can say how more satisfied I feel nowadays with a narrow set of hobbies. I no longer feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of things to do. I get to do what I love even when I am bored of doing the same thing infinitely. Nonetheless, I still love it and I welcome the boredom. For one to really stick with a hobby, one must not be afraid of boredom. And that's what I'm trying to do.