Have you got any hobbies that you haven't been doing lately? | via philstarlife
On the bus after attending an art fair for work, I looked through the bag of samples I’d been given and felt a certain kind of wistfulness. There was a 24-color set of acrylic paints and a beautiful spiral-bound notebook. I also found a pair of Pigma Micron drawing pens, and that’s when I kind of had to stop for a while and look out the window in an act of existential spiraling.I hadn’t touched my sketchbooks in years.
I used to make shrink plastic pins with Andrew VanWyngarden’s face or Swim Deep lyrics on them, using my own creations to decorate my backpacks and denim jackets. I used to take my bulky entry-level SLR everywhere and call it photography. I used to write fan fiction and poetry, I used to run a zine, I used to make collages in my journal, I used to have projects I started and actually finished.
And that was fine, for a while. I pitched the essays I’d been meaning to write anyway and the deadlines were great at motivating me to see them through. I’d type a few lines or brief paragraphs on my Notes app about my feelings and experiences, and if I read them right, I could pretend they were poems.
When Man Repeller published a piece on why it’s not always necessary to give in to the pressure of monetizing your passions, I didn’t understand it at first. Wouldn’t you want to do something you enjoy and have it contribute to your net worth? But then I realized that hobbies are supposed to be fun, and they’re supposed to make you happy regardless of anybody else.
The one hobby I’ve really kept all these years has been taking pictures on a cheap plastic camera that uses 35mm film, and it’s just one of the things that never fails to make me happy, despite being slow-going and costly.
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