no hobbies. sad.
nothing expensive, or with an unreasonable learing curve. something easy to start doing that requires little setup so i can pick it up anytime i want
you guys got any ideas?
Explore your neighborhood
- geocaching
- contributing to open street maps (Street complete)
- photography with your cell phone
I almost commented earlier and suggested Street Complete myself, on the grounds that if someone is sad, which OP said he was, getting outside and getting exercise can be helpful.
While you’re against boring, have you considered whittling?
Seconded. All you need is a knife, a block of wood and a box of Band-Aids (sticking plasters, or whatever your colloquial term is for small wound dressings).
Needle felting. Like ten bucks for some needles, some wool, and a sponge. It’s no-skill-required art form that consists entirely of stabbing.
Bird-watching or star-gazing or both. A pair of binoculars is all you really need for either. You can print some stuff off online if you wanna get fancier with it.
I would add bug watching as well, and using an app like iNaturalist.
It will help you identify living things and you will help documenting your environment.
slinging. that is making a sling and learning to throw things with it. get some rubber balls large enough to not go through the fence at a tennis court and go to the court when no one is there and practice.
Oooh, where do you start with this? Like are there YouTube tutorials or a forum or something?
there used to be all sorts of things. like forums and meetups. definately should be able to still find plenty of youtube videos. You can even make a sling from string using macromae which might lead to another hobby.
Painting. Can be done for relatively cheap and scales up to a lot.
Birdwatching. If you have a smartphone you can get the merlin app and start from there. Collect 'em all like pokemon.
Photography. Really helps you see everything with a new perspective. Learn natural scapes, urban scapes. Interesting people. Flowers, Social activism documenting homeless, or cool or interesting people if you live in an urban freakshow. You can make the ordinary extraordinary.
Photography can get hella expensive though, even when you stick to the used market. That said, most phones nowadays can take HDR photos so they also serve as a starting point.
You can do amazing work with a smartphone. It can be hella expensive. It doesn’t have to be. Most of the best photography was done with total shit compared to what’s available now.
Frisbee golf
Ukelele.
Started just a year ago. So much free instruction on YouTube. It’s been great
Also bongos or cajon! Tons of videos online.
Am I guessing no social stress neither? Because I was going to recommend joining a non-profit on whatever you find cool, art, sport, nature etc. We are social animals we need some contact to be happy, and having a target activity will reduce the fear of feeling awkward.
IMHO creativity is the key for a hobby in order to not be boring.
Whether you make photos that are special and unique or tell stories that never have been told or whatever: create something, and it will stay interesting.
There are exactly zero boring hobbies, through the right eyes or right lens.
boring as you use it, is a term which works best when describing a person. Take from that what you will.
Well you could start drilling a hole down into the earth for fun. That would be a boring hobby…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremes_on_Earth#Lowest_artificial_points
It’s boring time, OP
It would not be boring in any sense of the word when you got close to magma. :-)
Right? I have loads of hobbies. How the hell am I supposed to know if OP will find the m boring?
you can say what you find interesting i wont flame you bro 👍
Badminton, swimming, jigsaw puzzles, blogging, video games, cooking and reading.
These are the low barrier of entry stuff that keeps me going.
cannabis
Electric drum kit is fun, cathartic, and quiet outside your headphones. Chilis are easy to grow, and they certainly entertain the mouth. Running saved my life. Tennis balls from the machine launcher. Rock wall. Skateboard. People love pickleball, but you need friends. Darts. 3D printer. Electric piano. Cooking class you can meet a girl, cook for her, get back rubs. Singing lessons. Fetish exploration. You got this.
Ooh would you have some recommendations or pointers on what to to look at for electric drum kits?
I’ve always wanted to learn drumming but never got around to it
i have an alesis kit my dad got for me through sweetwater, its pretty awesome!!
So here’s the problem: you can’t adopt someone else’s hobby, and find it interesting by proxy. Any activity (not just hobbies) can only be “not boring” if you yourself are actively interested in it for its own sake, not just as a time sink. Your attention and investment in the activity is what makes it interesting and engaging. You get out of it what you put into it. Low-energy, low-investment time sinks are entertainments, not hobbies. Play some video games, no shame in that, it’s relaxing, inexpensive, easy to start and you can pick it up and put it down whenever.
To really give you an answer on a hobby, we need to know about what you’re interested in. Hobbies are about developing some kind of skill, for your own benefit and growth as a person (probably not financial benefit). Hobbies are about exercising your personal passions on your own terms, with no obligations except those which you set for yourself. What kinds of skills do you have as a starting point, and what do you wish you had? What kinds of activities do you enjoy doing? What kinds of activities do you actually make time in your life to do, on your own, regardless of whether other people are involved?
I’d say a hobby doesn’t need to develop any skill, it just needs to have some kind of achievement and progress. Video games are absolutely hobbies, but it’s the difference between one with a story that you progress through, and candy crush. (Which doesn’t exclude that some people play candy crush to “make progress” on their high score, but most don’t)
