Hobbies: Why just have one?

Hobbies play an important part in our day to day lives. They give us something to do when we are not working on stuff for either our job or our classes. It helps to relax your mind and relieve all the stress you might be feeling from how hectic these things tend to be. Sometimes, they can cause you even more stress depending on the hobby, but that is beside the point.

There are many different hobbies that someone could pick up. These include things such as drawing, singing, building things, playing games, pottery or even collecting figures of a show or character you like. Each hobby has its own way to distract and relax your mind. This isn’t to say hobbies can not be challenging though. Some hobbies can require a bit of money to work on collecting, or if you get more into the creative side then there is the possibility of artist block.

Despite these challenges though, hobbies still are fun and very beneficial to have. The thing about hobbies is that you can truly have as many as you want. You do not rally need to be limited to having only one hobby. While this may be difficult, considering the challenges that some of these hobbies may possess, whether it be how much money you have or how much free time you possess to focus on them, it is actually more beneficial to possess more than one.

From personal experience, I can confirm that this is true. Having more than one hobby allows for you to gain new skills or discover talents within yourself that you may not have even known you possessed before. 

For example, my hobby mainly used to be drawing and occasionally writing, but recently I’ve taken up voice acting and singing as a hobby. Due to me taking on these hobbies, my ability to do these things has steadily started to improve over time. If you were to tell my younger self how many of my friends and family enjoy my singing, I would not believe you. I mean it’s hard for me now to believe this.

Taking up these extra hobbies also opened a road of new possibilities for me. Due to one of my main friend groups, which is composed of many people with talented voice acting abilities, I’ve slowly started to take an even greater interest in voice acting, outside of it being just a hobby. This eventually led me to even taking up an acting class during my second ever semester. The multiple compliments I got have even led me to consider it as a career choice.

In a sense, having multiple hobbies can lead you to discovering possible future career choices for yourself. It leaves you with a possible backup in case you are struggling to accomplish your current dream. Depending on the field you wish to go into as well, it can also help to remove some of the work off yourself. Like say if you wish to create games and you have a talent for voice acting. That can help to save money on hiring a voice actor for certain roles.

However, this is not the only benefit that can come with having multiple hobbies. Another benefit includes the possibility of meeting new people. A great example of this would be like watching a new show or playing a new game. While sure, fandoms tend to be very mixed sometimes with some parts of it being really bad, there are still many good parts to a fandom as well. 

A great example of this in my case would be “Five Nights at Freddy’s”. If it were not for my introduction into this series and into its fandom, I probably wouldn’t have as many friends as I have today. By becoming a part of this fandom, it has allowed me to meet so many creative people who have all served as a great inspiration for myself to keep improving my own creations to the best of my ability.

By introducing yourself into new things, it allows for you to meet so many like minded people and it may even help you to further your own vision of what it is that you wish to accomplish in life. 

This does not just include shows and games either, for example, by taking up chess as a small kind of hobby it introduced me to a multitude of new friends within the chess club, and by taking up writing and art it has landed me into working for The Vermilion where I have made so many wonderful friends.

Overall, taking up multiple hobbies can be very beneficial and can lead to so many new possible routes in life, so don’t just stick to only having one. There are so many talents that you possess that you may just not know about yet.