A hobby is a favourite pastime of a person. Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby to your liking, lucky you are: you have made your life more interesting.
Numerous hobbies can be subdivided into four large classes: doing things, making things, collecting things, and learning things.
The most popular of all hobby groups is doing things. It includes a wide variety of activities, everything from gardening to travelling and from chess to volleyball. Gardening is one of the oldest man’s hobbies, especially in some countries (Britain, for example). A relatively new hobby which is becoming more popular is computer games.
Making things includes drawing, painting, making sculpture, designing costumes, and handicrafts. Some hobbyists write music. Two of the most famous hobby painters were President Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill.
Almost everyone collects something at some period in his life: stamps, coins, matchboxes, books, records, postcards,, toys, watches. Some collections have no real value. Others become so large and so valuable that they are housed in museums and galleries. Many world-famous collections started in a small way with one or two items. People with a good deal of money often collect paintings, rare books and other art objects. Often such private collections are given to museums, libraries and public galleries so that others might take pleasure in seeing them.
No matter what kind of hobby a person has, he always has the opportunity of learning from it. By reading about the things he is interested in, he is adding to what he knows. Learning things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby.
Helen Keller is one of the most amazing people in the world. She was originally from Alabama in the US and she fell ill with a terrible disease that made her unable to see or hear. When Helen first became ill, she often screamed and behaved very badly. When she was 7 years old, Helen's family found a tutor for her, Ann Sullivan, who also had very poor eyesight. She was very strict with Helen and began to teach her to put words together with her hands, but Helen did not quite understand what they meant. So one morning she held Helen's hand under the water and wrote "W-A-T-E-R"on the other palm. That day, Helen learned 30 words! Then Helen learned to read Braille and type both in Braille and on a regular typewriter, and to understand what her teacher was saying, feeling her mouth when she spoke. At University, she began writing her first book, the Story of my life. She graduated from the University in 1904, becoming the first deaf-blind person to receive a degree. Helen has written many books and essays, lectured around the world, and worked hard to raise money and improve the living conditions of the blind.
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