MY FAVOURITE HOBBY
OR HOBBIES
OUTLINE:
- Introduction
- Different people have different hobbies.
- References from history Churchill pursued painting, Salisbury worked in his laboratory, Einstein played upon a violin, Shaw grew vegetables.
- Types of hobbies---stamp-collecting. Coin-collecting, fishing, photography. cooking, cycling, singing, playing, dancing etc.
- My hobby---growing vegetables and flowers.
We know that modern age is the age of hurry and worry, stress and strain, sorrows and sufferings, cares and anxieties, din and noise. It has robbed us of our peace and pleasure, rest and respite, sleep and slumber. Such people as remain busy should adopt a hobby, because a hobby is a pastime for a brain worker to restore his physic equilibrium. The range of hobbies is very large and one can select a hobby according to his taste and temperament; for instance, Sir Winston Churchill pursued painting. Lord Salisbury spent his spare time in a chemical laboratory; Einstein played upon a violin; Bernard Shaw took pleasure in growing vegetables. Common forms of hobbies are stamp-collecting, coin collecting, fishing, photography cooking, cycling, singing, playing, dancing, but my hobby is gardening.
I live in a village. Since my father is a farmer, my hobby
costs me nothing. When get tired of my work, I leave it there and go to my
garden. There I have prepared some small patches of land. First, I dig the soil
with a hoe. Then I loosen it and break the big lumps. After that, I sow the
seeds of different vegetables in it and water them. I protect these seeds from
birds and insects. After a few days, tiny plants come out of the soil. To
enrich the soil, I use fertilizers. When these plants grow big, I spray them to
kill virus, pest and insects. I remove herbs and wild plants.
After two months, they bear the fruit of my labour in the
form of different, vegetables like tomatoes and potatoes, beans and spinach,
peas and pumpkins, carrots and coriander, garlic and onions, radish and
hibiscus. I use these vegetables at home as well as sell them to meet my
educational expenses.
Beside these vegetables, I also grow various kinds of
flowers. My favourite flowers are rose, ivy, lily, water lily, tulip, and lady
of the night. The fragrance of these flowers makes the whole atmosphere
pleasant.
I love my hobby because it soothes my tired mind and averts
my nerve breakdown. This physical work keeps me active and energetic, feverish
and enthusiastic. It saves me from mental and physical diseases.
In a nutshell, a brain-worker must scrape some time from his
vocation because - hobbies are restoratives and mental tonics, but these
hobbies and pastimes should not come in the way of ones duties and
responsibilities.
