Want New Friends? Find a Hobby

Lost jobs. Companies going out of business. Foreclosures left and right. The stress today, for some of us, is overwhelming. The only thing keeping some of us going is our hobbies. For many of us it is watching television – sporting events, sitcoms, one of the many reality shows, etcetera. For others, its getting involved in more interactive activities such as novel writing software, taking photographs, playing sports, or even star gazing.

It probably goes without saying that it’s almost always more fun to share your hobby with a friend than to do it alone for instance, even a simple solitary activity like running, is a lot more fun when doing it with a friend. And some sports and hobbies, such as badminton or poker, pretty much require that more than one person 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 finding those who enjoy the same interests harder to find.

Luckily, the Internet, far from keeping people apart as many sociologist first feared, has actually become a great tool and resource to bring people of similar interests together. Over the past 8 years, literally thousands of forums have sprung up over the Internet, started by people with an interest or hobby that they loved and showing you how to write books. And in the course of starting their forum, most of them discovered that they were not alone in their love of that topic.

But furthermore, in what has surprised many people, their common interest in their hobby has spilled over and 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.

Chris Edwards write about writing children book. Please visit his website.

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