What took you so long to write anything? Why the sudden turn around? I will answer it in two words that describe me characteristically to an extent: Lazy and Moody.

Plus, COVID has been tough for all of us to be frank, a lot was dealt with. A lot of social and workplace lifestyles got changed. And the right space wherein we generally feel happy wasn't available for most of the time because of whatever was happening around us. And meanwhile, I got married as well. The best thing that happened during this phase. :)

This is just a random scribbling, so don't expect it to have any in-depth analysis, musings etc. The only reason I am writing it is because from quite some time I have been thinking, how many hobbies have we dropped in the last 10 years or so and what caused the change!

I am pretty sure, if you look back, most of us loved to play any sport, write, dance, sing; the list is endless. There was something that we absolutely loved doing in our spare time. And then something happened that just kept changing us as a person from within.

You are not the same person as you were 10 years ago. If I have to strictly speak about myself, then I am not the same person at a lot of levels that I used to be. One can reason, this is what we call maturity, this is life my friend etc etc. I get it.

But don't you think this also has to do with the conditioning around us? The fear of missing out, is at the highest levels now that it ever used to be with the internet social world being right at our fingertips. Don't you think, someone to whom travelling doesn't come naturally, is suddenly having the time of his life doing it, just because there are other folks doing it in ample?

For folks who know me for years, they can vouch that I do not like sharing photographs of my life around social media to great extent. And see, in 2022, here I am, signed up on Instagram and doing it all. And I have no fear excepting it that FOMO was one of the many reasons behind it.

Why it all can't be normal if you can simply avoid doing the 'trend' or things that everyone is doing? Don't you think the reason is more skewed towards 'FOMO' than 'genuine' ?

And now, back to my original question, why do we leave out our hobbies as years progress? The ones that we actually loved. And what it takes to start again?

You are the best person to answer that first question for yourself, as stories differ and there is no generalization to it, in my opinion. As for the second, I think, it only takes a moment (plus a cup of tea for me, always) to realize nobody really cares if you start again or not, or do something that you like. As long as you are doing it for yourself, you will be happy. And that should be the only thing that matters. :)