Work for it, learn from it, enjoy it, and never stop loving it.

Hobbies are the most wonderful activities to occupy any living individual residing in a country like Canada ( Europe, America, South America, Asia, the world! Don't think I have abandoned you!) Whatever form the hobby may be in, whatever it is you like to do and whenever you like to do it, we can all agree on the fact that they should ( SHOULD) be enjoyable and memorable in terms of experience. On a personal note, I, myself am an advocate of hobbying. I can't live without engaging in my casual hobbies at least once a day. Piano, working out, running, martial arts, boxing, reading, BASKETBALL, sports, those are the most common hobbies I tend to engage myself in. For the average American ( Sorry, North American) teenager, when the lone term, "hobby," comes up abruptly in a conversation in the form of a question, the first few things which may come to mind may include some of the following: Computer games, messaging, gaming, texting, an instrument, or a sport. It's hard to believe that many teenagers have very few to no hobbies which involve mobility and communication. There are still teenagers today who would prefer to stay indoors and obsess themselves over an xbox game rather than to go outside and at least play some sort of sport, like soccer or basketball. It's sad today that many teenagers would prefer to chat online all day long, and not make use of the blogs available on the internet to share some of their overt and private thoughts with other people omnipresent about the globe. Very few teenagers today are orators. They are quite shy when it comes to communication and presentations, and have difficulities with tasks requiring critical thinking and analysis. Hobbies should be able to gratify people in a more positive manner.

Just think of how much enjoyment can come from the piano, reading, and even sports and a good work out. Hobbies shouldn't really compel anyone do enjoy, or have fun. When a person plays a sport or piece, they should play it for the sake of having fun, and indulging themselves so that they needn't to worry about all the problems and stress from school, and at home. When a person forces themselves to enjoy a hobby, and ends up punishing him or herself due to the belief that they "failed" or "underachieved" in that particular activity, the activity no longer becomes a hobby because they will have problems enoying that hobby, learning from and loving that hobby in the end. And so, that hobby becomes something of a competent and challenging activity, and that competitiveness and need to win becomes intrisic within that person, which may be a bad thing as many of them may take activities too seriously to the point where they would act irrational, and cause harm to others and themselves.

So, whatever your hobby is, whatever it is you love to do, just remember and think, " why am I doing it, and am I enjoying this?" If you have troubles answering those 2 questions, then you may want to reconsider doing that activity, and exploring what you actually enjoy doing on a daily basis or in your worthwhile time. Remember that in a hobby, there shouldn't be a loser or winner, or a first, second or third place. There are only goals in hobbies, and there should be no barriers restricting you from achieving that goal because, you control what you can do and how much you can do in your own hobby. Peace.