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Hobbies Are ____ Activities

Nowadays, ____ has a hobby they like to do in their free time.

In the past, though, this probably wasn’t ____ because most people had to work long hours in agriculture or manufacturing, so free time must have been hard to come by.

However, the Industrial Revolution and the labor ____ that followed it led to a gradual decrease in working hours to eight-hour work days and five-day work weeks.

For the first time in history, a majority of ____ had free time to enjoy activities that they found meaningful outside of work: hobbies.

Hobbies Are ____

For many ____, hobbies are serious.

Serious leisure may sound like a contradiction, but ____ what it takes for an activity to qualify as a hobby.

To take a hobby seriously, you have to make a meaningful effort to improve your skills, take ____, overcome hardships, or become a better version of yourself.

If you meet someone who has woken up at the crack of dawn to take a picture at the “magic hour,” you ____ assume that they think of themselves as a “photographer.”

A runner, a gamer, or a photographer are titles that people are proud to ____ themselves.

On the other hand, you wouldn’t call yourself a “TV watcher” or “online ____.”

Watching TV and surfing online aren’t ____ serious hobbies because there’s no challenge or way to improve yourself.

J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was passionate about ____.

He invented languages with grammar rules and histories: Sindarin and ____, the former inspired by Welsh, and the latter inspired by Finnish and Latin.

But ____ languages was a frustrating hobby because he had to isolate himself while creating them.

He wrote of the isolation that he and other people who loved ____ experienced:

“But they become ____, ashamed of spending the valuable commodity of time for their private pleasure, and higher developments are locked in secret places.”

____ are very different now.

The Internet allows people to learn about languages and meet other language enthusiasts ____ all over the world.

Instead of working on their projects in private, they can easily find other like-minded people to share their passion, celebrate their achievements, and encourage each ____ along the way.

They could even work together on language projects that Tolkien may have never been able to ____.

While some people pursue a hobby to improve their skills, some do for the sheer pleasure of ____ it.

Albert Einstein started learning to sail when he was 18 years old, venturing ____ on the lakes in Switzerland and simply enjoying the time on his boat.

He continued to enjoy sailing as a ____ sailor.

____ he is considered a genius in physics, he wasn’t a good sailor, nor did he care about his sailing technique.

His technique remained at a basic level, which was simply to “Set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or speed, lean back, ____ the boat drift.”

On a boat, he ____ everything else in the world, which may explain why he enjoyed sailing so much.

For him, it was being out on the water that mattered the ____.

Einstein used the hobby of sailing to go to a ____ where he could be completely relaxed.

Maybe that’s why he named his boat ____, meaning “worthless” in Yiddish, after the apparent meaninglessness of his sailing adventures.

Watching the waves ____ on his boat, Einstein forgot all his worries.

Like Einstein, for many people, hobbies just provide the conditions for a sense of ____ satisfaction.

You may be surprised to find that pursuing a hobby ____ accomplish more than self-satisfaction.

That is, it ____ leads to an unexpected contribution to society.

For example, Thomas Bopp, a manager at a construction materials factory and an amateur astronomer, ____ the comet Hale-Bopp while observing the sky with his friends in the Arizona desert.

To make the ____ even more shocking, he was using a borrowed telescope that his friend had assembled himself.

And Bopp is not ____.

Numerous amateur astronomers have discovered comets, stars, and supernovas, ____ helps us to better understand the solar system and the universe.

Amateurs in many other fields have made important contributions through their hobbies, such as amateur ____ developing new technologies, amateur writers publishing their work in local magazines, amateur history researchers preserving historical sites ...

The list ____ on and on!

There are ____ reasons why people pursue hobbies.

For many people, the challenge of learning a new skill or ____ a difficult goal is their primary motivation.

Other ____ enjoy hobbies for the communities they can become a part of or the friendships they can make there.

Still others enjoy ____ because they can lose track of time and be in the moment, similar to being in a meditative state.

____ people even end up making contributions to society through their hobbies, oftentimes unexpectedly.

It is the physical, mental, or emotional experience, or even a ____ of them that makes a hobby rewarding and fun.

Perhaps it should be ____ “pleisure.”