A hobby is any activity you indulge in during your spare time. Hobbies are a great way to spend free time, especially when it is pleasing and satisfying and you almost won’t realise how much time you have spent on that activity.
There are several benefits to count when you carry out a favourite activity like a hobby. These advantages include:
1. A means of mental refreshment and to disengage from everything and everyone – a private time.
2. A way to meet people of like minds and a way to expand your vision and horizon.
3. An avenue for fun as hobbies are basically what interests you.
4. A way to learn new things and expand and improve your creativity.
5. You will always naturally face the ultimate challenge of self improvement in your hobby which in turn raises your endurance and innovative capacities, to mention a few.
There are so many things we come to achieve in engaging in our favourite activities or hobbies that are actually not quantifiable but only signify our mastery in the art of that hobby. For example, a very good poker player is renowned for his interpretations of facial expressions and is well known to pull very contemptuous bluff. A chess player is known for his analytic abilities of any and every situation he finds himself even if it’s outside a chess board. A painter has an exceptional affinity for colour usage and a remarkable sense of imagination and memory. All these skills are honed as you gradually improve in that hobby that you never find uninteresting and tiring. Eventually, you get better at what you do even if it’s a hobby like reading and writing which develop intellectual capacity, vocabulary, language usage etc. Also, you get to notice as you keep good practice of your hobby, that there are a good number of ways your performance increases in your job, personal life and other aspects of life. A hobby is a good way to train your mind.
You should know that it isn’t as hard as a punch in a brick to choose a hobby. You can simply look within yourself and figure out what interests you; those affairs or activities you are never bored of embracing even at your most tired moment. There are countless hobbies to choose from if you are trying to figure out what you can take for a hobby.
You could take up:
1. Cooking
2. Reading and writing
3. Travelling
4. Fishing
5. Sight seeing
6. Playing instruments
7. A sport or athletic activity
There are more hobbies than you can imagine. Just indulge in an activity that improves your personality today and you will feel more motivated.
About the Writer: Bello Muhammad is a graduate of Biological Sciences. He is passionate about education and personal development. He is also a lover of chess who has featured in the West African University Games for his institution. You can contact him via Google+ and email: slimophobia@gmail.com, phone 08152501891 and Twitter @Slimanic.
