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The most enjoyable hobbies for me are the creative ones. There's something extra satisfying and fulfilling about actively working on something personally, more so than just passively consuming something. Of course, I wouldn't say that you should never do anything passive, but there is something especially fulfilling about being productive.
But if it's about productivity, where do you draw the line between work and hobby? lately I've been thinking about how wonderful it would be to find your work as fulfilling as a hobby.

It seems natural that people must have some sort of work to do in their lives, rather than be idle. Of course, nowadays it seems like we're conditioned from an early age to desire nothing more than to consume and be comfortable. But it seems to me that these desires will never really be fulfilled, and so they never lend the same sense of meaning to one's life that something like craftsmanship might.

Temporary pleasures are always something I find myself looking forward to in the future, like I'm deferring my happiness to a future date, like some kind of distraction from the harsh reality of the present. But imagine being able to take joy in the present, in every moment of your work, rather than just the down time.

I'm praying for the day that I can take joy in my work, and the meaning it lends to my everyday life, rather than some abstract idea of comfort in the future.