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The way adulthood is defined here, as in not having hobbies or personal time, strikes me as strange. I disagree with it - but I’d like to hear what people think
by planarhobbit 4y ago
The way adulthood is defined here, as in not having hobbies or personal time, strikes me as strange. I disagree with it - but I’d like to hear what people think of as adulthood.
I suppose I’m an outlier (aren’t we all) but most things I have to do, I like to do them. My job is an extension of an immensely satisfying and enriching hobby. If something breaks, it’s interesting to attempt to fix it. Having a choice AND not having one are both, to me, liberating in a sense. I’m a hands on person when I can be. The things I don’t like to do I often give them to family members or friends who do like to do them. Is there an air of petulance over needing to do things from time to time? Sure, but that’s normal.
Perhaps it’s to do with facing death, or seeing close friends and family pass away, or relinquishing a part of your time and energy to your kids, or seeing people change for the worse over time. But if this is what adulthood is, then whoever thinks so has not even begun to question what life is all about.
But this is a sliver of contemplation, it is not a be all end all to things.
- TimPC 4y agoI went through the dropping all my hobbies and was happy with that decision for about 6 months when I had a newborn and didn’t have time for anything else because of unpredictable sleep and returning to work after my paternity leave. There is room to do a great job raising your kids, remain involved in their lives, work a full time job and find a bit of personal time for hobbies. I’m doing that again now that my son is nine months and mostly sleeps through the night. Honestly, some hobbies only need 3 hours a week of time commitment and you should be able to find that in your life if you have the right people around you. It’s definitely different if you’re trying to raise a kid alone (I have so much sympathy for the difficulties of single parenthood now that I know how hard it can be with two people.)