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Why has Emma always struggled to find a hobby?
You know, I've always struggled with finding hobbies. Ever since I was a kid, I remember being so jealous of the kids who seemed to just find their hobbies effortlessly. Almost as though their hobbies just fell into their lap. You know, like the kids who got put into soccer camp when they were four years old. And then by 14 years old, they were soccer prodigies.
Or the kids who started painting and doodling at age two and then by age 12 were being entered into art competitions. Or the kids who were obsessed with bugs starting at age three and now at age 15 are working at an internship at a bug scientist lab making paper mache replicas of bugs. I've always just felt like hobbies come easily to everybody but me.
And I am aware that that's a bit extreme, a bit irrational, but that's always how I've felt. I've had hobbies over the years that have stuck somewhat, but I have never really liked hobbies. Even the hobbies that really have been satisfying and exciting for me have always come to some sort of tragic end eventually. I don't know.
It was really hard growing up and watching my dad, somebody who is the king of of hobbies. He is a painter. He's a surfer. He makes music. He's a photographer. He does woodworking and carpentry and like this man is a walking hobby. Okay. That doesn't even make sense, but you get what I'm saying? Like he is the king of hobbies. And I remember feeling so jealous of him.
Like, how is he able to find so much fulfillment and excitement from these arguably pointless tasks? Like, I don't know. I always really just struggled with the concept of hobbies. Always. In fact, to fully paint this picture for you, let me tell you about every single hobby I've ever had throughout my life, at least that I can remember. Thank you so much for watching.
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And let me tell you, the same thing would happen over and over and over again. We would have like a singing lesson or a guitar lesson or something. And it would start out inspired. I'd be like, yeah, let's fucking do this thing. You know, I'm going to sing Hey Soul Sister by Train. I'm going to hit all the notes. You know, maybe we'll even record it and listen back to it.
This is going to be great. Or, okay, it's time to learn guitar. Let's sit down and let's get going. Let's start strumming. I think playing guitar is going to be really satisfying. Mind you, this is at age like seven, eight, nine, 10, pretty young. Long story short, every time would start super inspired. I'd be super excited.
And after like 15 to 20 minutes, I would get so frustrated that I would storm out of the kitchen where we were doing these music lessons and And I would go in my room and slam the door because for some reason I got angry, either because the guitar was too big for my little fingers to reach around and pluck and press on, or the strings on the guitar were hurting my fingers.
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