My Favorite Hobby

My Favorite Hobby

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Hobby is an interesting pursuit other interesting pursuit other than one's main occupation. It is usually followed during leisure. It does not give money but it gives immense pleasure and joy. It is essential to make our life enjoyable and cheerful. Without it life becomes dull and monotonous.

Different persons choose different hobbies according to their aptitude, tastes and choices. Some choose gardening, some like drawing pictures, some like painting: while others like rearing birds, catching fish, collecting stamps and so on. A person chooses his hobby according to his own liking. Like others, I have also my hobby and it is gardening.

One may wonder why I spend time and energy to such an unproductive work. One may say it is mere wastage of time and energy. I don't feel or think it so. The time that I spend garden is not useless. It strengthens my body and refreshes my mind. Everyday in the morning I feel a great pleasure after visiting my garden. My heart dances with joy seeing flowers tossing their heads in the gentle breeze. At night when the sweet smell of flowers comes into my room, it makes me happy and fills my mind with divine peace. That is why gardening as my hobby.

My garden is in front of our house. Everyday in the afternoon I go to my garden and work there for about two hours. I usually turn and dig the soil and make it fit for planting new plants. I pull out weeds and grasses from the garden. I water the plants regularly in the dry season. I have almost all kinds of flowers in my garden such as- the rose, the chameli, the shefali, the sunflower, the dalia, the beli, the sheuli, etc.

A hobby gives pleasure and joy. It makes a man active and strong. A man who has a hobby doesn't spend his spare time in idleness. It leaves hardly any room for evil thoughts to grow and thrive in minds. Moreover, gardening as a hobby teaches us the dignity of labour in life. It gladdens our mind and purifies our soul. Adam and Eve, parents of mankind, in their innocent state were, perhaps, placed for this very reason in the Garden of Eden.