We all like to spend at least an hour of leisure time regularly; this free time helps us to de-stress from the daily mundane activities. Most of the people, like to pursue their hobbies in leisure time. Now, I’m not going to belabour my readers on elaborating the nature and kind of hobbies one can have, that itself demands a separate post. The question I find more intriguing is, why one likes to have hobbies? Where lies the demarcation between hobbies and normal everyday pursuits?
We “have to do” the routine-based daily work, while we “like to do” those things related to our different hobbies. The difference in the perception, execution, and the happiness gathered, distinctly separate hobby from work. It also rejuvenates our mind and body by mellowing down the discomposure. A hobby or outside interest, most of the times, is rewarding.
Perhaps the most widely practiced hobby is travelling. Travelling breaks the monotony of the prosaic life providing the much-needed freshness. For me, travelling doesn’t mean a mad rush from one place to another. I, rather, like to ponder and wonder, garnering small happiness in the process. Walking down a mountains road on a misty morning, as the Nature unveils itself slowly with the sun rays, helps me to understand the true meaning of happiness. My heart leaps up at the sight of an unknown flower smiling all by itself.
I remember one of my ventures to a remote tribal village in the Birbhum district of West Bengal, away from the bricks and stones and cacophony of city life, a tryst with nature. I was exploring the village and the adjoining forest (it would be an exaggeration to call it a forest, it was just a reminiscence of one) breathing in the fresh oxygen and enjoying the greeneries with an insatiable thirst. The sight of a row of Kadamba trees (common bur-flower) in full bloom with big round golden-yellow flowers, made me enchanted. The wake of the fragrance of the flowers struck me more; the captivating smell, has been etched in my mind forever.
The hobby of travelling often turns itself to an addiction. And, when it does so, you often have to shell out a fortune to nurture your hobby. Goibibo coupons offering amazing offers on travel purchases from reputed sites can be of great help lowering the budget to some extent. As someone has rightly said, that, while preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and money; then take half the clothes and twice the money! Expedia, they are also striving to make travelling a joyful experience for all.
My gadget-freak cousin has a penchant for exploring new devices. He proudly proclaims this as his hobby and enjoys it with great élan.
While it takes a lot of time for me to understand the pros and cons of a device, he, with a few quick clicks, snoops into the device discovering it from all the possible points. Whenever a new product hits the market, his one and only mission is to lay his hands upon it. He buys, sells, resells, again buys, exchanges- a never ending vicious circle it is for him. To lower the price of his pocket, he relies on discounts and coupons, too.Hobbies, thus can be of myriad types; from collecting boxes to rock climbing. Interestingly enough, what may be a hobby for one can be the profession for another. The quintessence of hobby is recreation and enjoying one’s own self through a creative outlet. It can be a great source of stress relief.
So, what’s your hobby? Do you have just one or more? Share your hobby-happiness with us. 🙂
I love to travel, too. But when I’m home, I garden,read, write and take photos. (Much less expensive hobbies than a trip.) And let’s not forget blogging!
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Yes, of course, blogging! Truly, travelling is an expensive hobby and so is photography, if one really wants to own some good camera, lens and other stuff… Gardening and reading- these really make me happy and satisfied…pocket friendly too 😀 😀
Thanks, Clare, for stopping by and commenting… 🙂
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You’re welcome and thanks for visiting here. Have a peaceful week, Maniparna. Clare
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🙂 Thanks…wish you the same….
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I love reading, cooking, video games, and writing! Lots of time one of them dominates the others — I have a very obsession-prone personality.
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That means what you do, you do it almost perfectly…. 🙂 Great…
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I like to think so! LOL
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Mine is cooking, traveling, writing. All these break the monotony and bring cheer in my life.
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Indeed. Hobbies help us to relax and bring new happiness in our life… 🙂 Thanks, Saru…
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I like to read,write poems, listen to music, like to enjoy the nature 🙂
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Nice to know about your hobbies..:-) Thanks for dropping by…
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Welcome 🙂
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i too love to explore nature like you n latest is swimming..
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Swimming is so relaxing during the summer… 🙂 Thanks for dropping by and sharing your thoughts…
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Travel became my hobby! 😀
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Yeah…I know… 😀
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Travel, photography
Also stamp collection.
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Stamp collection… great…oh! heard of it after such a long time. Philatelists are rare these days…. 🙂
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Hello Maam
My hobby is to travel and listening to soft music – sometimes I do have a stroll at beach here just to de-stress my self.. offocurse finance is always on my mind hehehe…
Nice article maam
thanks for sharing 🙂
Have a wonderful weekend
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Your hobbies sound so lovely. And that you are a stock-market geek and finance is always on your mind is evident from your blog…. 😀
Thanks so much for stopping by… 🙂
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Hobbies, thus can be of myriad types; from collecting boxes to rock climbing. Interestingly enough, what may be a hobby for one can be the profession for another. The quintessence of hobby is recreation and enjoying one’s own self through a creative outlet. It can be a great source of stress relief.Very well written and actually these thinking are of everybody. Interest differs from person to person and we should respect their interests.
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I agree with you. Interest may differ from person to person, but the perspective and purpose remain the same, at least in this case…
Thanks for dropping by… 🙂
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I have a huge list of hobbies and it all depends on my mood. Basically I love to travel. If only I get a chance to visit places. I like to capture the world around me. So Photography tops my list.
Lovely post, Maniparna 🙂
A Rat’s Nibble
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Thanks dear Rat… 😛 Yes, photography and travelling – my favs too…. 🙂
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Travel certainly, cooking, working out, Yoga, listening to melodious songs. I have many. 🙂
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Yes, most of us have more than one… 🙂 depends on our moods too, I guess. Thanks Rachna… 🙂
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My hobby is drawing at which I find my inner peace. Travelling wasn’t my thing but after travelling for a week I found that, it helped to reboot the system of my monotonous life. Travelling is great. 🙂
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Drawing is something in which you excel. Had you been my own brother, I would have never let you to be an engineer… 😀 I’m a great fan of your cartoons… 🙂
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wow… Then I missed the chance to be an artist… thanks didi 🙂
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You’ll be a successful engineer and a great artist…. 🙂 aashirbaad roilo… 🙂
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^_^
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As destressing and wanting to do , mine are reading,writing,traveling and sketching/ painting and DIY paper craft. Waise the list is quite long but being my soul-sis , you know me really well so you sort of know :):)
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Yes, in this case also, your hobbies are same as mine… 😀 I used to love Origami a lot…but haven’t practiced it for a long, long time. Thanks dear soul-sis for sharing your thoughts…. 🙂
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I have so many hobbies. Travelling, reading, singing, dancing, sketching are some of them. Hobbies really help us to enjoy life in the true sense 🙂 A lovely article, Maniparna.
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Yes, they always are…Thanks Purba … 🙂
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Mine is understanding nature, of both: Human as well as Existence 🙂
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Sounds wonderful and interesting too, especially studying the human nature… 🙂
Thanks Ravish… 🙂
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This is my also hobby.
Reading good blogs and posting my comments …
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That’s really a great one! 😀 Thank you…
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Watching movies,reading and writing are some of my happiness hobbies. Very well written.
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Happiness hobbies…I love this phrase..thanks a lot Nima… 🙂
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Travelling is definitely love but alas it requires planning Whenever I find free time you’ll find me engrossed in a novel or tweeting to get retweets 😛 . I also like watching movies and redesigning my home when I am free 🙂
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Your hobbies are quite offbeat ones and sounds cool. 🙂 thanks Najm… 🙂
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The difference between ‘have to do’ and ‘want to do’. For me, now, Life is a hobby 🙂 Like you I like traveling too, trekking, blogging, classical music…..the list goes on 🙂
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Yeah, I can guess your hobbies. And, nothing could be more blissful than when life becomes a hobby itself…you’re lucky…. 🙂
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Certified wanderlust… one who travels… by just reading your words… I feel like I have traveled the world… 🙂 nice thought here and insights… gosh I clicked the wrong button… instead of like I clicked the unfollow button… but its back… thus the notification… sorry my mistake… 🙂
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True dear, internet has blessed us with this. We can now wander all over the world and see it through others’ eyes. It’s a great virtual travel… 🙂
Oh! I got the notification …it happens..not to worry at all… 🙂
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You are so right Travelling is the best hobby out of all.. so much so that i have recently started another Blog Soulful Excursions dedicated exclusively to all my travel experiences..
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Wow! that’s great Roohi..didn’t know about your second blog. Wish it a grand success… 🙂
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I am searching for another hobby for eternity 😀 😀
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😀 hope you find it soon….
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Much needed 😀
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I got so many.. pity i dont get time to fulfill all of them .. summers are coming to now is the time for gardening 🙂 I love travelling and playing hockey….
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Do share your gardening pictures with us. It’s a great hobby. A green thumb always gives happiness… 🙂
Thanks a lot for dropping by… 🙂
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Travel and Books, yo! 😀
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Same as mine… 😀 Though I’ve many more… 😛
Thanks for dropping by… 🙂
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Bow! 🙂
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Interesting post on hobby Maniparna. As you rightly pointed out, it should as well get along with our nature and interest, which gives penultimate satisfaction and happiness.
My hobbies are all kind of nature activities like bird watching, turtle walk, eco-walk and trekking. I enjoy doing it.
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Your hobbies sound really cool. Such Nature activities always attract me. Perhaps you know, I’m a nature lover to the core… 🙂
Thanks for sharing your hobbies with us… 🙂
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travel travel travel and travel… 🙂
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That’s great… 😀
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Good one on hobbies. 🙂
I would love to spend time with books.
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I guess, while travelling… 😀 Travelling and books prioritize my list, too…. 🙂
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Great write up Maniparna!
Mine are reading, writing and travelling:)
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Thanks Amitji 🙂 Those are great hobbies… 🙂
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“what may be a hobby for one can be the profession for another”, well said. Can a hobby not be turned into a profession by the same person? I think that’s what is meant when they say choose/follow a profession or hobby that you love and you will not have to work.
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True, when a hobby becomes someone’s profession, that could be a bliss. On the other hand, when eating biryani is a compulsion every day, one might find it most irritating…. 😀
Thanks for your comment… 🙂
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I like your article. Hobbies are mostly expense incurring. I have so many that I think I would put up a blog post on them. 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
A blog post on all your hobbies is definitely a great idea 🙂
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For me it has to be writing and of course travelling.
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That matches with mine….thanks for sharing your views, Purba… 🙂
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We may not be good at something but yet we like doing it, that can also qualify for hobby I guess.
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Absolutely Anoop. Very good point here… and, also, practice makes us perfect… 🙂
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Very true. 🙂
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Maniparna, lovely post with a fine question as its centre;
observing people is one of my favourites.
Best to You
john
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That’s must be a very interesting hobby…. 🙂
Thank you…
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Nice one Maniparna..I guess my hobby is simply to write and also about people, how they think and how they react.. I find that simply fascinating and mysterious at so many levels 🙂
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Observing and studying people sounds like an interesting hobby. It also helps us to understand their philosophy, I think… 🙂
Thanks Vinay… 🙂
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He he I guess I’m quite a nut that way .. But it’s kinda fun 🙂
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Real fun it seems..I will try it… 😛
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I love photography and travel! Nice shots.
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Thanks…your hobbies are reflected in your blog…. 🙂
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Lovely post!!!
Hobbies is what keeps us going, breaks the routine and the drudgery we get into through our work…working for an earning is a mandatory requirement we just cannot escape this even it is a monotony. But life is more than just work and yes, we all have our means to meaningfully and happily engaged in activities that are close to our heart.
No doubt about that travelling is one of the most universally followed hobby, why not it take you to places and indeed walking through those less traveled and unknown places leaps our heart and makes feel conquering new territories…
I enjoy travelling, walking and playing with my lens…Love this, wonder and ponder.
😀
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As a regular reader of your blog, I can guess your hobbies as well 😀
You love your hobbies and that’s evident from your writing. You are very right to say that hobbies are close to our heart. 🙂
Thanks a lot for sharing your views, Nihar…. 🙂
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You are right there are these hobbies which are very close to our heart, we just cannot trade off with anything…passion overtakes our profession.
You know it but when you read such lovely post, it reinforces…
😀
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Well said, Nihar..thank you 😀
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Mani, To be frank i am confused with usage of few words like hobby , passion, daily routine …. Little bit that I understand is that daily routine is for basic needs, hobby is food for our soul. But then what is passion. Again May be problem with my side , if what we do in leasure time is hooby then watching TV , sometimes painting, sometimes reading, sometimes writing , travelling …… but are they really food for our soul ?? .
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I think it is different for each of us. Painting may satisfy one’s soul while another finds solace in reading. Varies from person to person. Again, one can be passionate about his work, means, he loves it earnestly. WE can be passionate about anything and, perhaps, a little passion is alway associated with our hobbies… 🙂
Thank you very much for presenting a different perspective…it was definitely thought-provoking… 🙂
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Writing and dreaming of writing!
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Oh! Sounds great…writing is one of my hobbies too… 🙂 Thanks a lot..
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I love travelling, singing and dancing 🙂
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That’s cool and creative..thanks … 🙂
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mine travelling, reading and dressing up 😀
http://docdivatraveller.blogspot.in/
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All are good … 🙂 Thanks for sharing with us….
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Oof I have a tendency to buy gadgets when I travel, to record sights when I go sightseeing, It’s a vice I know but so addictive :O
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Even it sounds addictive 😀 I’m a lover of gadgets too but no addiction attached to it. Big Yes to travelling and books and music…
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Cheers to that! 😄
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🙂 cheers…
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If hobby is meant to de-stress, then nothing de-stresses more than having a good chat with a friend. Of course, travelling away from the city breaks the monotony of daily routine, and helps to de-stress. Btw the kadamba flower looks so fresh. 🙂
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Right, a good chat with a good friend really helps 🙂 Travelling is everybody’s favourite, it seems… 🙂 thanks for sharing your views…
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Vivacious description Maniparna<3
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Thanks, dear… 🙂
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I enjoy oil painting– Not that I’m good at it, I just enjoy it. But I haven’t had enough time to do it lately. [Sigh!]
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That’s a great hobby, creative and colourful. You must continue with it…. 🙂
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