Hobby

All of us do some kind of work to ward off starvation or to gain sufficient material wealth wiyh a view to maintaining that standard of living which our physical and intellectual powers have helped us to reach. But there is another kind of work which is completely discovered from the burdensome process of our livelihood and which is undertaken for the sake of amusement or interest or the direction of our surplus stores of energy in some new and useful channels of refined tastes. This delightful occupation combining work with pleasure or hobby, as it is properly termed, calls for the application of our highest faculties and given proper form to our healthy instincts, purposeful habits and disciplined behaviour. In our carefree and vacant hours it allows these faculties to perform their natural functions and to display their instinctive greatness. We devote our leisure to the pursuit of this pleasant task and derive advantages which compare favorably with those we obtain from the breas - earning routine of our daily life. Hobbies widen the shere of our cultural activities, give retirement to our tastesand show us the path that leads to our systematic mental and moral development.Our tendencied and inclinations also find in them an outlet for a healthy and progressive expression.
"A hobby is a favourite subject or occupation that s not one 's main business." In this age of machinery which has taken upon itself most of the laborious duties of physical exertion formally. Performed by man, then creating for him pleasant intervas of rest and leisure,it should not be difficult for him to devote some time to the pursuit of a new interest that can add some charm, colour or zest to his life. The spare time must not be frittered away in idleness or spent on such work as overtaxes his mind and body after they have performed their normal functions for the day. The new interest weill be worthwhile only if it provides relaxation and change from ordinary occupation, banishes the drabs of routine work and produces a feeling that life is both charming and meaningful.
The choice of hobbies , like the choice of books, purpose of reading, is not an easy task. Some hobbies demand a little guidance from experienced persons. Our sudden attach to them without the backing of his preliminary knowledge may result in wasting of our resources of time and money, ans in the end compel us to abandon them. Some hobbies are rather expensive, and therefore beyond the means of ordinary people who can ill- affors to spend large sums of money on them. Not a few are imcompatible with our temperament and taste. We must not, therefore, allow the glamour of certain hobbies to blind us to their reality, how so ever tempting they must appear to us, nor should we begin to cherish them thoughtlessly because we find other people so devotedly attached to them. In the first flush of enthusiasm many have rushed into unsuitable hobbies only to find themselves turning away from an a atate of great illusionment. In a few rate and exceptional cases a sudden and instinctive choice of some hobby sometimes proves to be the right one. We must not, however, forget that tinkering with a hobby is a joyless and wasteful process, unattenes by an appreciable gains. Scatteres is also not a desirable end.