Leah Smith is a 17-year-old senior. She has a passion for event planning and social work. She likes surfing the internet for new ideas or topics she never knew existed.
Whether you like to draw, write poetry, or engage in local photography, we all have interests that we like to take part in. That is what we call a hobby.
A hobby is considered to be a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically done during a time of leisure.
Hobbies are often used to expand one’s interest and self-expression. For example, if you like reading books you may want to start writing your own.
A hobby can help you better express yourself. For example, if you enjoy cooking, you might write a cookbook with recipes for food that you have made on your own.
What if I find myself losing interest in hobbies I once enjoyed?
At some point, you might find hobbies you once enjoyed might not be as captivating as they once were.
This often happens when you enter a new stage in life.
For instance, I used to love writing books but as I grew older, the hobby felt more like a chore than something I could enjoy.
We can also lose interest in hobbies due to our age. When you were little you might have loved playing with toys but as you grew older you just stop doing it.
Another reason hobbies can become something you enjoy less is simply due to lack of time. Spending too much time on a certain hobby for months and years on end can get tiring. Or maybe you left a hobby and tried to come back and it just wasn’t the same due to the time you spent away from it.
Usually, when people feel themselves losing a hobby, they can become anxious because they feel they might not find another interest they enjoy. What used to feel comfortable is now making them feel uncomfortable. They might become frustrated and force new hobbies they don’t enjoy. Instead of helping, doing this makes them more stressed.
Now you might be asking:
How do I combat this feeling and find a new hobby to indulge in?
Below, I have a few tips for you.
1 . You don’t have to do the hobby all the time.
Yup, you don’t have to do a hobby every day, week, or month. And you don’t have to start a new hobby if you really don’t want to. If you know your interest in a certain hobby is now limited don’t force it. You might find that you get inspired by this certain thing once a month or maybe once a year and that’s okay. Taking a break from hobbies can help you save ideas on what to do next time you feel motivated by this particular interest.
2 . Create hobbies based on your current interest.
If you know your interests have totally flipped based on your old ones it may be best to get new hobbies altogether. For example, if you used to like sports but now have taken an interest in true crime, you could start writing about crime or simply find other groups that discuss this new interest of yours.
3 . Combine your past and the present.
Combining your past hobbies with your newfound interest could be a great opportunity to start a new hobby . To be specific, if you had a past enjoyment for art and find yourself now enjoying nature walks, you cantake pictures of the nature around you and draw or edit the pictures you have taken. Doing this would help increase passion for old hobbies, along with expanding upon the new ones.
4 . Let things come naturally, don’t force them.
Often the best things we come to love we never see coming.
I know it may be frustrating to lose hobbies but do not under any circumstance force something upon yourself if you do not find it enjoyable. You might think this is going to help you but it will only make you irritable. The best way to find new hobbies or inspiration is to let them come naturally.
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