ENGLISH ESSAY ‘Hobbies’ FROM
550 TO 600 WORDS
A
hobby will be outlined as a probe that one undertakes in leisure for pleasure
and not for profit. The hobby does not aim at earning any money, though
sometimes, it may indirectly bring about financial benefit. A man engaged in
the collection of stamps may unknowingly collect a few rare stamps which may
bring him money. Hobbies reflect the life and personality of a person and give
us an insight into the temperaments, tastes and propensities of the people.
Life
in the modern age has become monotonous, dreary and dull and hobbies provide
the required change from the drudgery of a routine life and serve the purpose
of a refreshing change. The fever and fret of our life is forgotten, though may
be for a short-time, when one is engaged in a hobby.
Reading
fiction and journals, stamp-collecting, coin-collection, painting, fishing,
photography, writing to pen-friends is some of the popular hobbies. Collecting
autographs of celebrities, boating, playing golf, cricket and other games are
also the hobbies of some persons. Gardening is more or less confined to rural
areas as there is hardly and place left for this hobby in the urban areas.
Hunting,
which used to be a very popular hobby in the olden days, when means of
entertainment were very few and far between, has been given up as it involved
the killing of innocent animals, some of the popular hobbies among women and
social work, knitting, stitching, crochet-work though some women indulge in
negative hobbies of rumor-mongering and scandal mongering.
As
it is rightly said that an idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop, one should
not remain idle and hobbies should fill up one’s leisure which can serve as a
welcome interlude in the tedium of one’s daily life. Recreation is not the only
aim of hobbies which give us knowledge we don’t get from text books. Besides
serving as mental tonics hobbies are an excellent way of spending one’s
leisure.
One
should pursue only those hobbies which are useful such as gardening,
photography, riding, swimming, yachting as they enable us to use our leisure in
a harmless way, while hobbies such as gambling, drinking and cards playing
which do not promote real happiness, should be discarded. Besides scandal
mongering, character assassination, rum our mongering are very dangerous and
can create many enemies for us.
People
living in big cities often visit picnic spots and places in the lap of Nature
to refresh them. It is disheartening that most people in our country do not use
their leisure in a proper manner. There are some whose leisure is spent in an
unplanned manner while there is others whose leisure is utilized in
supplementing their meager income. The life for the poor is a nightmarish
experience. Most of us waste our leisure in visiting friends and watching
useless movies. It is also equally regrettable that some college students spend
their leisure in watching cheap movies and reading pornographic fiction which
corrupt their minds and deprive them of any useful pursuit.
There
is no doubt that hobbies are the best means of spending leisure and useful
hobbies can certainly keep people away from evil ways of life. They channelize
the exuberance; enthusiasm and energy of the young an can go a long way in
solving many complex problems. Hobby should not be converted into a dull dreary
task but should be treated as a mental pastime. Regular work should not be
ignored for the sake of a hobby.
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