Hobbies

A hobby is something a person likes to do in his free time for fun, education, or self-improvement. Hobbies are something that we all have and like to do every once in a while. Some popular hobbies are collecting stamps, cards, or rocks. The reason why we do hobbies every day is that aside from work, sleep, and friends, we as human beings need alone time for our psychological well-being. Hobbies are important to have because with them, we can maintain a level of sanity amidst a world of craziness and unpredictability. Hobbies are nice to have because they make ourselves more educated, more happy, and more responsible. One hobby, fishing, teaches you how to become better at fishing and also makes you more acquainted with how marine ecosystems work. Fishing makes you stronger because it improves your physical strength. I admire fishers for their ability to withstand such long periods of stress. Hobbies are important for people to have so that they maintain their composure. My favorite hobby is writing because I like doing it and also know it improves my fluency with language each time I write. As a writer, I feel like I improve myself as a person because I think writers have a good sense of human nature. They understand the deeper thought processes that go on in a person’s head. Writers are like artists, scientists, and doctors, combined. I immensely enjoy writing. I feel grateful for being able to write as a pastime. One hobby that I think people should get rid of is watching television. Television is detrimental for a person’s eye health and a person’s alertness. When I watch television, I feel kind of like a zombie. Television is kind of boring to me because all I do is sit and watch a screen for thirty minutes. I truly believe there are better hobbies than television and that you can improve the way you spend your time. 

Television is just a box that is connected technologically to satellites around the world providing free, mind-numbing, and simple entertainment. Television is a hobby enjoyed by many because it is cheap, easy to understand, and fun in a superficial way. I believe television is something that you don’t have to or want to do if you really want your life to be meaningful in a deep way. Television is something we like to watch because we don’t have to do anything while watching it. Television is a boring hobby to me because I don’t want to be totally passive when I am having fun. I want to do something active like writing, playing chess, or listening to music. Television is a cheap thrill that in the long run is a total waste of time because it teaches you or gives you nothing. Television is a very bad way to waste your time because it makes you completely passive and unable to do anything else other than staring at a screen for an hour. So, if you watch television regularly, try something else for a change like fishing, swimming, playing computer games, or listening to music. You might enjoy it for a while and learn something new. Watching television is a bad way to spend your time. 

My personal hobby that I enjoy the most is writing, because when writing, I am able to put into words my thoughts, ideas, and experiences and share them with the world. I like to write because I feel like I am actively doing something but also improving my ability to articulate myself. Writing is something that I enjoy doing because it is so mentally demanding yet rewarding at the same time because when I finish a work of writing, I feel like I accomplished something worthwhile. I love to write because I am naturally gifted with words and have a knack for being able to express myself in a beautiful and honest way. Writing to me is like watching television for others. It relaxes me, calms my nerves, and makes me feel happy. Writing is my favorite thing to do. Writing makes me feel and probably does make me more intelligent. I feel lucky that I am able to write while not having to think about how much money I’ll make. Writing is so wonderful to me. I love writing. It is simply extraordinary.

I hope that I was able to show you why I dislike television, which is a popular form of entertainment among the common person, and enjoy writing which is mentally much more demanding. I love to write because it involves your whole brain and makes you laser-focused for a long period of time. I dislike television because it is very boring, passive, and in my opinion, a total waste of time. I hope in this essay I was able to show you why I enjoy writing, what hobbies are and why they are vital to our well-being, and why television shouldn’t be as popular as it is today. I hope my essay elaborated on the benefits of having a hobby at all and distinguished between good and bad hobbies. Maybe my essay will make you think about how you spend your time on Earth. Our lives don’t last forever, after all.