My Very Common Hobbies

I am feeling quite content with my current condition of life. I am in a situation of where I have very little to regret every time I wake up in the morning. Aside from the realization of how huge my ass is, I am actually feeling quite grateful almost in every aspect of my life up to a point of which I feel guilty of feeling such gratefulness. My family, as a unit, is quite dysfunctional. Surely that is something to be depressed of, is it not? However, such depressive phase had long passed me a few years ago. I am in a stage of where I am mischievous and sinister enough to find some sort of ways to avoid such issue from tormenting my emotions. I find other occupations to fill the voids in my life so that sadness would never have a place in my heart. Maybe that is why God has very generously granted my with a number of interests for me to occupy myself with. The interests are numbered to three, as this article is written - reading, sketching and writing. I am very equally passionate to all three. And of course, I know there's the law thingy but then I never consider law as my interest. I am a staunch believer that law is never my interest but my destiny instead. To categorize it as an interest seems a very inappropriate thing. I was born to do law, I cannot live without law; the question of me liking it or not has become irrational indeed.

Sketching for me is the easiest hobby amongst the three to indulge myself in. It is not costly; you only need a good pencil and a sketchbook and requires little of your time and commitment. My thinking is not exactly challenged when I'm creating my artworks. The process is more of that I have a picture in mind and I would try to put it into real life through sketching. I like doing all these symbolic stuffs; sketching shapes and objects together in an awkward manner so that other people have to at least think a little bit to know what you're trying to say through your artworks. The hobby rarely drives me crazy and emotional. It is as if introducing my own thinking through my artworks. My timing pattern for sketching varies though; sometimes I complete two to three artworks in a week and sometimes none in the whole month. It depends on inspirations and ideas, mostly.

Reading is of course my main interest. It can be compared to self-teaching myself new ideologies from different authors from various eras. I am able to open myself up to this possibilities of clashing opinions between my current mindset to one of which I am about to be introduced every time I open up a new book. That is my problem; I don't read simple fictions! I don't read Harry Potter, Twilight or all those novellas about a normal girl falling in love with a hot hunk with godly perfection features. I find it hard to relate myself to such heroines; the goofy funny one with trouble finding love. It is because I am not in a situation of where I am finding love. I don't want to seek love. I mean, where the hell is it to be found anyway? Thus, to escape from these teenage fake dramas, I turn to classics. Yup, classical philosophy and classical literature - what a complex combination of reading preferences. I initially had a very hard time understanding even a passage from these classic texts. Trust me, these dead authors preferred using ultra fancy words to explain a simple sentence and turned them into a draggy page-long paragraph. Nevertheless, as my English reading skill matures, I find the language structure in these novels to be quite beautiful. The draggy length of the sentences actually allows us to immerse ourselves more in the situation described in the book.

And finally, writing. About what? I write about lots of stuffs. Sometimes fiction and sometimes just something I need to babble about. It is as if there is a whole different universe in my mind with many colourful characters just waiting inside there to come out and burst through my Microsoft Words. Writing for me is very therapeutic but at times can be very tiring. My mind has to work very hard in building the plot, how the characters intertwine with each other and the theme of the stories; they can be political, radical, about youth, love, friendship and lots of other stuffs. I currently have a few stories that I've been working on but none of them is completed. Thus, the only negative sides of this hobby - it takes a very long time, this writing shit. Writer's block can come anytime anywhere anyhow it want. and when it happens to me, it takes quite a few weeks to be lifted. but overall, i find writing my most enjoyable hobby. maybe because of my exaggerated imagination and fantasizing skills or maybe my life is just to damn bored that I need to insert some drama in it through creating the drama itself. Haha, whichever way, I don't care.

These three hobbies have always come in handy especially during my semester breaks. They literally saved me from turning into a 'living zombie' who wakes up in the morning for the sole reason of eating and watching tv. Heck, I see no creative energy coming in doing those things...