How Hobbies Help Us Form Friendships
Posted November 18th, 2009 by adminOne thing that makes just about all hobbies more enjoyable is sharing them with another person. For example, even a solitary activity such as running, is more enjoyable when doing it with a friend. And some hobbies, such as tennis, pretty much require that two or more people be involved.
Sixty, seventy, eighty years ago, finding a friend who enjoyed the same things you did was simple, because everyone in a community grew up together. But we have gradually moved away from each other. Childhood friends now live on different coasts. Family members often only get together on holidays because everyone lives so far from each other.
Everything together makes getting those who love the same hobbies harder to put together.
But then the Internet came along. And, conversely from keeping people apart from each other, as many social observers once feared, the Internet has instead become a great resource to bring persons of similar interests together. Over the past eight or so years, literally thousands of discussion groups have sprung up all over the Internet, begun by people with an interest or hobby that they loved and showing their participants 3 tips for writing a book. Somewhere in the course of starting their discussion group, most of them discovered that they were not alone in their love of their hobby.
And in many cases, for many people, the common online interest has continued into the real world and created genuine off-line friendships. Friendships that in the good old days never would have happened.
This, more than most things, goes to demonstrate just how much of a communal animal that man truly is and how much we all need one another to make life enjoyable for us.
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