My Hobby
A hobby is different from work..
A hobby is pursued during leisure. It gives relief from boredom and refreshes
the mind after tiring physical or mental work.
Hobbies differ from person to
person. Manual workers may like to study books or magazines after hard physical
work. Intellectual workers may give rest to their minds by playing some light
game like badminton or tennis. Many people take interest in gardening,
photography, seeing movies etc. during their leisure time. My hobby, how-ever,
is stamp-collecting,
I am aware that a hobby is
pursued mainly neither for earning money nor for adding to one's knowledge nor
for gaining popularity. There is absolutely no selfish motive involved in a
hobby.The main purpose of the hobby is just pleasure through recreation. Money,
knowledge, popularity and such other gains are only by-products of the hobby.
Secondly, a hobby is not intended to take precedence over work. It is only complementary
to work. It provides new energy to our mind and limbs to do more and better
work.
I selected stamp-collecting as my
hobby just by chance when I received letters from my pen-friends living in foreign countries. Very colourful and descriptive stamps of various designs
were fixed I was so on those letters. I was so much enamoured of those stamps
that I decided those stamps to have stamp-collecting as hobby. Now I exchange
stamps with my make purchases even in the market. I am a member of a number of
stamp-collecting national and international societies which help me in collection
of different countries.
I have with me about two thousand
stamps of various countries. Most of the stamps are of rare variety and my
friends who see them are all praise for them. They are arranged in a number of
albums in a very systematic manner. They tell us about different personages,
flora and fauna, historical events, achievements in The scientific and other
fields of various countries etc. Some of them denote some festivals or great or
important days like the International Year of Women or Year of the Girl Child
etc. I love to see them off and on.
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