How should you feel when trying out hobbies?
Should it be smth you enjoy or should it just be smth you’re focused on?
Whenever i try smth new i always compare it to how i felt excited when i was a little kid, because of that i feel like i can’t find hobbies as an adult. Cuz the excitement has dulled since then. Should you feel the same way you do as when you were a kid or SHOULD it be dulled cuz you’ve turned into an adult?
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You don’t always have to be involved in your hobbies. For instance, I think playing videogames during sunny weather is a wasted opportunity to be outside and there are few (classical) performances or club gatherings during summer as well. Does that make me less of a gamer, a music lover or a community person? Interests wax and wane; some disappear and some come back. To me, it’s mostly seasonal, but that doesn’t invalidate my opposite season lifestyle. Just go ahead and try new things, go out and explore opportunities beyond your usual borders -it’s what I do during my least favorite months, July and August.
Honestly, hobbies are in the eyes of the beholder. It’s not something I really have to make sure I do, I just do it because I want to or I have nothing else to do. Don’t over think it. Nothing is going to feel exactly like it did when you were a kid because your memories are clouded by nostalgia and most people remember mostly the good feelings associated with it. Just remember to just keep trying things and something will eventually stick, and again, don’t overthink it! Hope this helps
If you find something that makes you feel as amazed as you did as a child, find a way to make it your job.
Hobbies are ways of entertaining yourself that have some kind of (loosely defined) creative product. So, watching TV shows probably isn’t a hobby, but creating a spreadsheet to track characters from them could be. Generally, I think you should get a sense of satisfaction from a hobby, and when you’re doing it you should be thinking about the hobby not other problems in life, and you shouldn’t be feeling like it’s too much effort for the end result. So…yes to both your criteria about enjoyment and focus, maybe.
As you age, you’ll rack up experience and become less and less surprised by things, and it will be difficult to find the amazement you had as a child because any new amazing things will raise the bar for what you perceive as amazing in the future. You can still discover really cool things if you put yourself in the right frame of mind and make the effort to focus your attention on uncovering what’s delightful or ingenious or mysterious or funny or beautiful about pretty much anything on the planet.