The word Hobby
is derived from a Hobby Horse which stick fitted with a
wooden horse and on which small children ride for their amusement. So, hobby is
a useful work which can be taken up during leisure. Hobby means a useful work
in which one takes interest and drives pleasure by doing it in spare time
without any monetary benefit. This occupation is quite apart from the regular
work. There are many hobbies like gardening, stamp collecting, coin-collecting,
photography, and reading, etc. which one- adopts according to one’s taste and
purse.
It is a recreation from
the exhaustion and fever of life. After a day’s hard labor, not all persons can
go to see the movie and visit clubs for entertainment. Hobby provides a cheap
source of entertainment and amusement.
Gardening is my favorite
hobby through which I can see Nature and enjoy it. Nature is a true and
dependent guide of man. Wordsworth contends that Nature never betrays anyone
who loves her.
Ours is a big house at Muhammad Abad in Multan.
There is open space for vegetation, fruits, and flowers; I have grown flower
plants of rose, lily, and sun-flower. The sweet fragrance of the flowers
serves, as for my body and thus relieves me of becoming a prey to some disease,
l have planted a few fruits also. There is adequate growth of vegetables in our
compound. So, we seldom purchase any vegetable from the market.
Gardening provides me a good exercise for the day.
It keeps me healthy, happy, and fresh for the day’s labor. Gardening is my
sincere friend and inspires me whenever I am in a depressed mood. Whenever I
cast a glance over my small garden and see the beautiful flowers, my heart
blossoms.
Life is strife. If we rest, we rust, if we work, we
shine if we shine, the world gives us credit. Moreover, an empty mind is a
devil’s workshop. It is better that one should pass a very much busy life.
Struggle in the life itself gives pleasure to a man.
Hobby, thus, is an interesting pursuit through
which one derives pleasure, recreation and amusement in the leisure. In hobby,
one sucks pleasure, feels exalted and mentally elated. Hobby removes the
monotony and melancholy of mind. Rather, hobbies have a great educative value.
Moreover, hobby gives a stimulus to better living.