Of Hobbies
Of HobbiesLook at people around you---those who are indulged in snack, drink and entertainment, or busy with daily pursuits, or occupied with making money for their dream, or just chatting all day long on line, unable to get out from it, many others who found that there are too many in life and have no idea about which to go after, and some in a totally confusing world. Life has become really busy and boring, and complicated as well. And we see that people are toiled, worried and bored. Fickleness is what most of us are showing nowadays. Ever wonder whether we can make life a bit easier and more enjoyable? Yes, we can. Our hobbies can help us to do that. What does hobby mean to you? Have you cultivated any hobby in your life? If you have, how much time do you have for it? (if you haven’t, do it right now!)
To me, hobby is an indispensable thing that I cannot live without. My parents used to prevent me from many things, but when it came to my hobby, they gave in to me, as they knew quite well how much it weighs to me. It is such a wonderful thing that makes I feel no existence of emptiness. When life becomes boring and mind blank, milk and honey cannot fill me, but my hobby can. It is a simple living way out from the life that is getting more complex. Tranquil I am inside when absorbed fully in the things I really like. Like lover, it accompanies me when I am alone, giving me comforts; like teacher, it guides my way, teaches me how to behave, rarely making me get lost. If I am a tree, hobby is my leaf; I a fish, hobby my gill; I a bird, hobby my wing. Maybe I’m going a little bit far, but you’ll see that I really mean it. If Zhangjing said to me that she’d buy my one of my hobbies with *****, I would firmly say, “NO”, although I have never had a ***** yet.
Cultivating hobbies needs constant even painstaking efforts. Since you were young, you’ve begun to take part in all kinds of activities like reading, writing, painting, cooking, gardening, stamp-collecting, and so on, some of which have lost their attraction to you, but some stay with you till now, maybe throughout your life. You keep these things with you because you like them and you invest in them with money, time and energy. Hobbies are the things you are truly interested in and never feel satiated with, in which you are willing to put your whole heart while obtain a variety of goals, and thus make you feel a certain sense of achievement and excitement, of happiness, and of security. When you are engaged in a field heart and soul, you find that house, car, money, all those material things really means little to you. It is then when you recognize some essence of life. And hobbies make you understand at least one thing that is---practice makes perfect. It is simply not acceptable that a man says that his hobby is painting while what he draws, supposed to be a cow, turned out to be like a horse and that one, who claims that he’s very fond of swimming, is not able to swim at all. They need practice, even if it’s just on hobby. Cultivating hobbies doesn’t necessarily mean making perfect, but it verily means practice. Only through persistent practice can the value of it be realized. Hobby is so important to everyone that I cannot imagine one’s life who lives without a hobby. Some people are fortunate as they take their work as their hobby, which makes their life easier. Unfortunately I am not. I’m getting old, too old to grow any other hobbies except the ones that I’ve had since I was a child. But I still have too many hobbies.
I like sports, all the sports that I have had access to, especially basketball. They say I’m like a monkey when I play basketball. They mean that I’m most agile on the court, though I’m not tall enough. I know how to shoot, cooperate, and organize an offense. An excellent player, they say. I swim in the swimming pool, the river and the sea; feeling what a fish feels. A gentleman I am when playing billiards; I also play football, badminton, pingpong, volleyball, and chess. Life was so simple then. Life was just sports! Much of my time was spent on sports.I like reading. Reading takes me to a totally new world when life is gray, where I greedily look for spirit food I need. It makes me able to tell right from wrong. It teaches me the standard of conducting myself. This activity made me know Wu Chengen, Cao Xueqin, Zhang Ailing, Yu Qiuyu and Jing Yong, who, especially Wu, have had too much profound influence on me. Then Cervantes, Balzac, Dickens, Bacon, and Shakespeare came one after another in my world. Whether I’m living like Monkey King, Ran Arang (the protagonist in Balzac’s novel---The Miserable World. don’t know his English name), or Don Quixote, it is reading that, to a great extent, has guided my way of living. I laugh, cry and live with them. Gradually I began to understand Jesus, Moses, Mohammed and Baha’u’llah and know where spirit comes from. And I knew that spirit does exist. If you have the whole human being in heart, what else can be more important than that? Nothing! So, I would pick books up as long as I could spare time.I also like cooking. Cooking is such a wonderful thing that I even cooked in my dream. Imagine this picture---you are a chef, waving a Chaoshao ( a spade-like tool used to cook dishes), making your favorite course in the kitchen, with sweat all over and sometimes steam on your glasses, happy all the same. What a wonderful scene it is! More importantly, you directly taste the fruit of your own labor. Whether it is good or bad, just enjoy it. Believe or not, cooking makes you a real man and helps you win a beauty’s heart. By the way, the dish that I’m most adept at is Potato In Toffee, Ba Si Tudou as they call it in Chinese. Drop in someday and I’ll very gladly cook it for you. But where are my hobbies now? Sigh! Busy with everything but my hobbies, I’m getting confused in this big world. Is it for dream, fame, or gain; for friends, family, or myself? I have no answer. I have to go forward for too many, so much so that I have to stop for a while and remind myself---don’t forget to enjoy life. It’s never too late to slow down, anyway.Above are some views I have about hobbies. You may have similar or different points. Share with us, please.
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