Being an adult is hard. I find that most days I feel unsatisfied with my life. I often think back to being in my early twenties and romanticize the time. Logically I know I was horribly depressed through most of it, but I still find myself longing for the days. I have a good life now, but sometimes its hard to see because I get so bogged down in the day-to-day. Partially that is because I have let what is important slip away for what is easy.
I miss the how busy I stayed. I miss how social I was. At one point when I was therapy, I created a life goal plan. I'm not sure if that is the actual name of it. Basically, I listed things that were important and why they were important and then I listed how I would achieve those things on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. I may find that useful to do again, but that is not what I am doing today.
Most days I come home and immediately turn on the tv. I watch a few hours of TV and then head off to bed. Some days its because I'm too tired to do anything else, but even on those days I feel like a bum for doing it. I don't recall ever before in my life watching as much television as I do now. I would like to get away from this. I'm sure that I will still watch TV, but perhaps not as much. I have set out to find a new hobby.
I'm older and I have a few physical limitations now (mainly that my knee often hurts). I would like to find a hobby that I can actively work at doing and one that I can sustain for many years. It needs to be one that I will be able to do once I return to school as well. I don't want to let it just drop to the way side. I googled hobbies and found a list of 308 hobbies. I have spent the morning sorting through the list and crossing out things that are either very impractical or that I am just not interested in. Over the next few weeks to months I am going to spend time exploring the list of hobbies I deemed plausible.
My Hobbies List
I miss the how busy I stayed. I miss how social I was. At one point when I was therapy, I created a life goal plan. I'm not sure if that is the actual name of it. Basically, I listed things that were important and why they were important and then I listed how I would achieve those things on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. I may find that useful to do again, but that is not what I am doing today.
Most days I come home and immediately turn on the tv. I watch a few hours of TV and then head off to bed. Some days its because I'm too tired to do anything else, but even on those days I feel like a bum for doing it. I don't recall ever before in my life watching as much television as I do now. I would like to get away from this. I'm sure that I will still watch TV, but perhaps not as much. I have set out to find a new hobby.
I'm older and I have a few physical limitations now (mainly that my knee often hurts). I would like to find a hobby that I can actively work at doing and one that I can sustain for many years. It needs to be one that I will be able to do once I return to school as well. I don't want to let it just drop to the way side. I googled hobbies and found a list of 308 hobbies. I have spent the morning sorting through the list and crossing out things that are either very impractical or that I am just not interested in. Over the next few weeks to months I am going to spend time exploring the list of hobbies I deemed plausible.
My Hobbies List
- Archery
- Board Games/Gaming
- Coloring
- General Crafts
- Crochet
- Crossword Puzzles
- Dancing
- Entertaining
- Exercise
- Hang Gliding
- Hiking
- Puzzles
- Kayaking
- Learning a foreign language
- Playing an instrument (clarinet or violin)
- Running
- Sewing
- Tea Tasting
- Tennis
- Traveling
- Urban Exploration
- Walking
- Writing
- Yoga
- Marksmanship
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