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So many of the usual, like many people I’m sure: drawing, writing, making bad websites, playing video games…
But also just laying on the ground and listening to the birds chirping. Starting at nothing and just letting my mind wander, for no purpose at all.
This is why I encourage people to spend time around children if they don’t have kids. Seeing the world through a child’s eye again is very grounding.
Drawing, I was actually good at it.
Writing for me. I mean I don’t know if I’m any good at it, but I like it.
Who cares, do what makes you happy. Capitalism has tricked us. You don’t have to be good at something to do it. Not everything has to contribute economic value.
Oh yeah for sure! I’ve had jobs before where I’ve done my hobby for a living and it makes me not want to do it for fun anymore. I’m gonna keep the writing just for me.
I was good at writing , I once wrote as a child a short story with black comedy that my dad who holds a PHD in the General Linguistics and a professor of the arabic language my native language at my country’s third largest University didn’t believe I wrote , and claimed I got it from the internet so I switched to engineering and now I can’t write shit or even think properly
Oh yeah, I had a teacher in High School ask me if I downloaded a story I wrote from the internet too. Luckily it was the 90s and our house didn’t even have the internet yet so that was easily disproven lol.
I tried writing. The process of writing fiction, of the characters coming alive in front of me and telling me the story they want to tell was fascinating. I didn’t expect that. I’d come to section of dialog and I didn’t need to write it, it was no effort at all because the characters were just talking to each other. Sure, I did the earlier work of defining them and creating backstory, but once that was in place, they took over. I’d make a mistake, and I knew it was a mistake because the character would tell me, “I wouldn’t say that. That’s not me.”
Once, I finished about four pages of dialog between three characters, and when I opened the file again, it was gone. I was devastated, because I didn’t think I could do it as well again. Fortunately, it wasn’t gone, Libre Writer was just formatting the pages strangely.
It doesn’t matter whether anyone else reads it or thinks it’s good. The process of writing is fulfilling in itself, and well worth the time spent.
Oh yeah, it’s always such a cool feeling when a character surprises you with something they do or say as you’re writing them do it.
The other one I like that happens to me sometimes is when I read back something I wrote a day or two ago and there’s a line in there that makes me go “Where the fuck did that come from?!” and I have no memory at all of writing it lol.
Draw some and post em here if you want some encouragement.
Drew this as a christmas gift for my nephew
It’s a manga character, I forget the name of her.
My younger self loved computers and programming and any love I had for that died after 5 years on the job.
I’m 15 years on the job now. 😭
Younger me took a stance. I needed to pursue my passions of Art and Videogames. Fast forward 15 years and now I’m an Art Lead for games at a company that is heavily invested in AI and doesn’t seem to know what the fuck they’re doing ATM. If I’m laid off, I doubt I’ll be able to land another job despite a good resume and playing games remind me of work.
Sad to hear this. A close friend of mine loves drawing and works in the games industry, and is really eager to move into an art role. I’ve suggested he keeps his drawing as his hobby in the worry he will lose his love for it, but he subscribes to the mantra of “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” I guess it gives him hope that there is a job he can work towards that will make him happy.
I switched to the “work to live, not live to work” mantra many many years ago. I try to find the little joys in work but it’s not my source of happiness.
I’m sorry to hear that. I don’t want anything to do with AI, so I imagine my current job will be my last job in the industry, too. I hope you can ride out the bubble at your current place!
“Do what you love for a career and you’ll never work”
“I hate my hobbies and want to patch potholes instead.”
“Do something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.”
Great quote that skips over the part where you grow to hate what you once loved, and are back working in the mines.
I’ve held on to mine for 30. Maybe you’re just at the wrong job :)
Do what you love, they said, and you’ll never do a day of work!
However, even though I do still do tech stuff around the house, it just doesn’t have that same feeling.
I was so happy to rediscover that playing in the woods and outdoorsing was super rad and exactly what I needed.
when I was in third grade the other kids made me shut up about Lord of the Rings, but I was right actually, that shit rips
Slowly rediscovering my fascination for radio communications. Meshtastic and Meshcore are running, dusted off an old analog scanner that I kept from my cb radio days in '97, and a RTL-SDR is on it’s way. Good times :)
I’m looking forward to getting my raspberry pi set up so I can plug in the SDR and play around with python libraries.
I also gavea DMR that I haven’t even begun to explore yet, but I thought it would be good to have in case of emergencies.
So many projects on the to-do list. Now if only I can find time for all of them…
Hear, hear. I’ve got the HF bug and deliver a specific feeling of joy when I QSO the farthest I can at a given power and antenna configuration.
I got licensed in my 30s after wanting to when I was a kid. My farthest contact is 15000km from the US to Australia running 20W into a dipole hanging from a tree.
Wild. Was that SSB or CW? From some time I spent in New Mexico a couple of years ago I managed to hit Malaysia on 100W SSB. I was floating!
This was SSB on 20 meters. My next farthest contacts are more like 5000 miles down to Chile and Argentina, same 20W G90 and dipole. I am completely lacking Asia and Africa though
Had a second take until I saw the community name, was waiting for the downturn
Throwing crabapples in the road to watch cars run over them? I’m not sure it’s a good idea
If you can rope another adult friend into it, you can just both take it in turns to run over crabapples and then there’s no worries.
You know, I started a comment telling you to go for it because it won’t hurt the cars, but I’d definitely think I ran over a small animal and it might lead to people stopping to check and endangering themselves…
Okay, given that the benefits of adulthood are being able to reenter the world of your childhood hobbies with the foresight of more experience, I say you throw crabapples onto train tracks.
My younger self was a fool. STEM, power and dominance should have been my only interests.
Relevant username.
Idk what you want, I went the idealist, softie, be a game dev route, suffering for it. Would have been better off ifnI was like evil.
Board games and little plastic army men.
I am collecting Lego City again. One day I’ll have a full city again.
No joke, the first time I hooked up with my current girlfriend, was right after I showed her my Lego City collection. I don’t know what it was about it that did it, but I had only just finished showing them to her when she asked to go to the bedroom.
I’m not saying your Lego collection will get you laid, but it seemed to be the final piece that convinced her she was ready. So uhh, take from that what you will.
Lol. My brother’s Lego collection absolutely played a role in my sister-in-law dating him for the first time.
I caught the look on her face when a group event happened to pass his meticulous thematic curated collection. His roommate was hosting an event while my brother was out of town, I think.
She “casually” inquired who built all that, but I swear I saw a “he could get this” look on her face.
I kept my mouth shut about what I saw, but they are married, now, anyway. Lol.
There’s more to it, he’s a fantastic guy. But yeah…first clue for her was his Lego collection on display while he was out of town.
You ain’t lying. I recently started to look at trees the way I used to. Like I got so many good climbing trees by my job. I might mess around and get caught hanging out in them one of these days.
This happened to me when I got glasses lol. It was like all the trees suddenly got the HD upgrade.
I somehow passed the 3rd grade eye exam, so I didn’t get glasses until I was around 18. I distinctly remember being flabbergasted by the trees sprinkled around the parking lot. Also road signs!
Omg yeah you just unlocked an ancient memory. It was like, you can see the individual leaves?? its so beautiful and dynamic, especially on a windy day
You mean sleeping? That never stopped being interesting to me.
With more money, and more new accessible tech and access to information, it’s great!
I doodled often as a kid. From little characters drawn on my notes or the corners of class work (after I’d finished completing them), to silly comic strips I’d make at home, to art class where I had a knack for still lifes, it was a casual interest that I really enjoyed.
By high school, though, I had friends who were incredible at manga-style drawing. I could never make drawings in that style, so I thought I couldn’t compete. I’d also been bullied a lot in childhood and was terrified to draw for school projects if I knew they’d be displayed around the class room, so I didn’t even try. I didn’t consider myself an artist at all, and had managed to internalize the idea that I couldn’t draw.
Then I became an adult and realized there’s nothing wrong with being unable to draw in a particular style, even if it’s popular. I began embracing my own style. I also began branching into painting, and before long I redid my childhood bedroom to create a different season on each wall, complete with a light blue ceiling full of realistic-looking clouds.
I’ve since become known for making art at the places I worked. At a craft store I taught classes and a coworker made a fake nametag for me as the “Official Doodler” of the store. Then my brother had kids and by the age of 2, one of his boys was enthralled by me drawing on a magna-doodle. He would ask me to draw particular things over and over again, watching every stroke I did, then copying me until he developed an amazing artistic skill in his own right. Today his classmates ask him, “How did you draw that?” and it annoys him, because it’s become so easy as to be intuitive and he doesn’t understand how they don’t get it.
My parents recently sold my childhood home. My old bedroom was a selling point - the new owners fell in love with it, and have already decorated the room to go along with the “seasons” theme. They’ll be turning it into a nursery. :)
So yes, 100%, go back to your childhood interests! You never know what skills might be lying dormant because you haven’t practiced them in a while. It doesn’t matter if it’s good or not at first, because if you’ve got a passion and you practice enough, you might surprise yourself with what you can accomplish.
