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My Hobby

They say life is nothing if you don’t have time to enjoy it. Life must have a certain aim, something with which you fill in your free hours. A man was always interested in this problem, so no wonder this theme was reflected in a great amount of prose works and verses. Among them is the wonderful poem by Davis:

What is this life if full of care

We don’t have time to stand and stare

……………….

No time to see in broad daylight

Streams full of stars like skies at night.

And I think that hobby is just that thing that helps one to stop an incredible whirl of events and stare around, noticing every tiny thing.

To my mind a hobby is that peculiar thing that distinguishes a man, reveals his inner world. Through a hobby we can learn a lot about the person. Paraphrasing a famous saying “Tell me what your hobby is and I’ll tell you who you are”.

It’s no doubt that a hobby gives us a good chance of enriching our intellect. No wonder sometimes hobby becomes the way of life. For example, owing to the passion for the space exploration provincial schoolteacher Constantan Tsyolkovsky became the father of cosmonautics.

I’m sure that it is a matter of great importance to take up a hobby according to your likings and preferences.

As for me almost all my free time is taken with programming. Since I was bought a computer it has become the major occupation of my spare time. I think that writing a program is like drawing a picture or composing a melody. It demands the same concentration of mind, even intuition and inspiration. While programming I plunge into it, forgetting about the world around. I can spend hours on end searching for a mistake of trying to improve the program. I’m sure that there is nothing better than programming to arrange one’s thoughts, to learn logical and consistent way of thinking.

To tell the truth I’ve never dreamed of becoming a professional programmer. To my mind there is must be a certain boundary between your profession and hobby as thus you can get pleasure from both.

They say there are 1019 different hobbies in the world. How lucky I’m to find the one that really suits me. But it doesn’t mean that that I devote all my time only to it. Frankly speaking I’m a great football fan. It gives me pleasure not only to watch football matches but also to play in it.

As far as passive kinds of hobbies are concerned I can’t help mentioning reading and listening to music. The first enriches my knowledge and gives me an intellectual insight; the latter inspires me and helps to relax.

So, waking up in the morning I know that I’ll never waist this day as I have so much to do and so much to enjoy.

19.03.01