Jan 24th 1-2-3: Don’t Neglect Your Hobbies
1: Don’t Neglect Your Hobbies ( 1 minute read )
When I was a child my dad told me, “son, never put down your guitar.”
Well I didn’t listen to that. In fact there were multiple times that I put my guitar down for extended periods of time. It sits there staring at me, for days, and I give it no attention.
It may seem like I was neglecting an object, but really I was neglecting a part of myself.
Hobbies are incredibly important to us as humans.
Creativity is in our makeup. We are driven to make something new. To express ourselves through communication of all kinds, through art.
Yet we also must earn money to provide for our basic needs.
That’s the rub isn’t it?
We spend so much time working and producing something of value for someone else, that we end up not creating something just for the sake of it.
This is why having a hobby that is just for you is so crucial. You don’t get famous off of it, it doesn’t make you money. What a hobby does do is give, yet not take.
What you do get back from it is incredible and can prove important to the development of your other skills and creative output.
Practicing guitar has made my drawing and writing come alive in new ways. I can feel my mind making new connections and firing new synapses. I feel more complete in what I am creating and as such the other forms of art are improving and growing.
What hobby of yours have you been ignoring? Return and see what is regained, and create something fresh and new for you.
2: Creative Prompts From Us (ex. Write a short story, a poem, a song, or draw a quick illustration of these! Let your imagination run free.)
I. Find a hobby that you used to do or would like to. Devote 15 minutes to it this weekend and see how it makes you feel!
II. Go over your schedule, and see how you can incorporate 15-30 minutes a day to this old/new hobby. Let it be a way to refresh you!
3: Inspirational Quotes From Others
I. “When you’re writing, it’s the things you do when you’re not writing that are just as important.” - Zadie Smith, Novelist
II. “My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.” - Claude Monet, Painter
III. “Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.” - Stephen King, Author
Thank you so much for reading!