With the current pandemic rampaging across the globe, it's a good time to pick up a hobby to occupy yourself with. My only problem is that I don't really have a hobby. My brother has his Lego sets and intricately constructed dioramas of space battles (no judgement here), my sister is leaning both Japanese and the art of baking. My mother has taken up painting and my father is practising his guitar. Myself, on the other hand, has no ways of killing time. The research I conduct on the lives of famous authors merely wounds time, and the photography I practice dents but a scratch. No killing.
It's not that I don't have the required materials to start a hobby, but talent is certainly a large factor. I injure both myself and my dignity attempting to bake with my sister, and I lack the patience necessary to construct meticulously-built spaceships.(And I ask too many questions about the significance of each detail, as my brother would say). My painting skills are less than subpar, and I'm hopeless at the guitar. All things considering, it seems that homework is my hobby. How tragic is that? To have school be a past time?
Some of the books that I've been studying are fascinating, however. I've taken up reading on ancient civilizations and wondering how their innovations have impacted our modern world in terms of science, literature, and culture. Mummified, skeletal remains unearthed from hundreds of thousands of years ago unearth many questions, but many truths about our origins. Intellectual works by Sappho, Homer, and Plato have survived thousand son years, and their fragmented words are studied today. What will life be like a thousand years from now? Will people look back on us, our books and language and art, and laugh? Will they be disgusted at the wars we've started and the lives we've taken and the wealth we've hoarded? Or, will they admire our resilience, our strength to endure our circumstances we were thrown into, and the way we came together as a global effort to overcome our struggles? Will they admire our creativity and our natural gravitation towards the arts: baking and Lego and painting and guitar?
Maybe I should just take up knitting or something.
