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LadyButterfly she/herSo many of the usual, like many people I'm sure: drawing, writing, making bad websites, playing video games...
But also just laying on the ground and listening to the birds chirping. Starting at nothing and just letting my mind wander, for no purpose at all.
Yes, I'm now buying rare vinyls and CDs! I'm waiting for a vinyl that just passed costumes, who knows how much I'm going to pay, fuck.
Drawing, I was actually good at it.
Writing for me. I mean I don't know if I'm any good at it, but I like it.
You ain't lying. I recently started to look at trees the way I used to. Like I got so many good climbing trees by my job. I might mess around and get caught hanging out in them one of these days.
This happened to me when I got glasses lol. It was like all the trees suddenly got the HD upgrade.
Omg yeah you just unlocked an ancient memory. It was like, you can see the individual leaves?? its so beautiful and dynamic, especially on a windy day
I was so happy to rediscover that playing in the woods and outdoorsing was super rad and exactly what I needed.
Yes when my kids got to the age of playing at parks, I rediscovered swings & monkey bars & gymnastics & acrobatics & what a therapeutic rediscovery it has been.
My younger self loved computers and programming and any love I had for that died after 5 years on the job.
I'm 15 years on the job now. 😭
Younger me took a stance. I needed to pursue my passions of Art and Videogames. Fast forward 15 years and now I'm an Art Lead for games at a company that is heavily invested in AI and doesn't seem to know what the fuck they're doing ATM. If I'm laid off, I doubt I'll be able to land another job despite a good resume and playing games remind me of work.
“Do what you love for a career and you’ll never work”
“I hate my hobbies and want to patch potholes instead.”
Do what you love, they said, and you'll never do a day of work!
However, even though I do still do tech stuff around the house, it just doesn't have that same feeling.
Board games and little plastic army men.
My younger self was a fool. STEM, power and dominance should have been my only interests.
Relevant username.
Idk what you want, I went the idealist, softie, be a game dev route, suffering for it. Would have been better off ifnI was like evil.
I doodled often as a kid. From little characters drawn on my notes or the corners of class work (after I'd finished completing them), to silly comic strips I'd make at home, to art class where I had a knack for still lifes, it was a casual interest that I really enjoyed.
By high school, though, I had friends who were incredible at manga-style drawing. I could never make drawings in that style, so I thought I couldn't compete. I'd also been bullied a lot in childhood and was terrified to draw for school projects if I knew they'd be displayed around the class room, so I didn't even try. I didn't consider myself an artist at all, and had managed to internalize the idea that I couldn't draw.
Then I became an adult and realized there's nothing wrong with being unable to draw in a particular style, even if it's popular. I began embracing my own style. I also began branching into painting, and before long I redid my childhood bedroom to create a different season on each wall, complete with a light blue ceiling full of realistic-looking clouds.
I've since become known for making art at the places I worked. At a craft store I taught classes and a coworker made a fake nametag for me as the "Official Doodler" of the store. Then my brother had kids and by the age of 2, one of his boys was enthralled by me drawing on a magna-doodle. He would ask me to draw particular things over and over again, watching every stroke I did, then copying me until he developed an amazing artistic skill in his own right. Today his classmates ask him, "How did you draw that?" and it annoys him, because it's become so easy as to be intuitive and he doesn't understand how they don't get it.
My parents recently sold my childhood home. My old bedroom was a selling point - the new owners fell in love with it, and have already decorated the room to go along with the "seasons" theme. They'll be turning it into a nursery. :)
So yes, 100%, go back to your childhood interests! You never know what skills might be lying dormant because you haven't practiced them in a while. It doesn't matter if it's good or not at first, because if you've got a passion and you practice enough, you might surprise yourself with what you can accomplish.
Throwing crabapples in the road to watch cars run over them? I'm not sure it's a good idea
If you can rope another adult friend into it, you can just both take it in turns to run over crabapples and then there's no worries.
You know, I started a comment telling you to go for it because it won’t hurt the cars, but I’d definitely think I ran over a small animal and it might lead to people stopping to check and endangering themselves…
Okay, given that the benefits of adulthood are being able to reenter the world of your childhood hobbies with the foresight of more experience, I say you throw crabapples onto train tracks.
With more money, and more new accessible tech and access to information, it's great!
100%. Painting miniatures half an hour a day keeps my head quiet.
Slowly rediscovering my fascination for radio communications. Meshtastic and Meshcore are running, dusted off an old analog scanner that I kept from my cb radio days in '97, and a RTL-SDR is on it's way. Good times :)
Hear, hear. I’ve got the HF bug and deliver a specific feeling of joy when I QSO the farthest I can at a given power and antenna configuration.
I got licensed in my 30s after wanting to when I was a kid. My farthest contact is 15000km from the US to Australia running 20W into a dipole hanging from a tree.
Wild. Was that SSB or CW? From some time I spent in New Mexico a couple of years ago I managed to hit Malaysia on 100W SSB. I was floating!
This was SSB on 20 meters. My next farthest contacts are more like 5000 miles down to Chile and Argentina, same 20W G90 and dipole. I am completely lacking Asia and Africa though
when I was in third grade the other kids made me shut up about Lord of the Rings, but I was right actually, that shit rips
I am collecting Lego City again. One day I’ll have a full city again.
No joke, the first time I hooked up with my current girlfriend, was right after I showed her my Lego City collection. I don't know what it was about it that did it, but I had only just finished showing them to her when she asked to go to the bedroom.
I'm not saying your Lego collection will get you laid, but it seemed to be the final piece that convinced her she was ready. So uhh, take from that what you will.
Lol. My brother's Lego collection absolutely played a role in my sister-in-law dating him for the first time.
I caught the look on her face when a group event happened to pass his meticulous thematic curated collection. His roommate was hosting an event while my brother was out of town, I think.
She "casually" inquired who built all that, but I swear I saw a "he could get this" look on her face.
I kept my mouth shut about what I saw, but they are married, now, anyway. Lol.
There's more to it, he's a fantastic guy. But yeah...first clue for her was his Lego collection on display while he was out of town.
So... back to stamp collecting?
Bank to formula
Hugging my stuffed animals <3
Experimental baking. Make up a recipe, write it down, bake it, assess qualities of baked goods, repeat
I am still doing the same things as I did as a child. Maybe less outdoor stuff but I blame that on lack of friends :(
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