Personal story about hobbies becoming workfrom @anushcache

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I realized yesterday why such few people have hobbies nowadays through an experience of my own. So I started doing Sudoku last year because I like doing something on paper and not on a screen. And I enjoyed the process of doing sudoku, and I felt a sense of achievement when I finished it. Like, yes. You're so cool and smart for doing that, which is a hobby. You do something for fun and you feel good about yourself. And then every Sudoku book I would buy would start with easy puzzles and get to, like, super, super difficult puzzles at the end. And what ended up happening is that instead of spending, like, ten, fifteen minutes enjoying doing a Sudoku, I best twenty five, thirty minutes not being able to solve it and feeling like a failure and being like, you're so stupid. You're not able to do this at all. And so I just stopped playing Sudoku. Until yesterday, I was at a bookstore, and I saw this Sudoku good, very easy. And I thought, man, I miss Sudoku. I wish I could just do easy Sudokos. And I was like, no. You can't. You need to do the difficult ones. Otherwise, you are stupid and not working hard enough. But that's not what a hobby is. That's what work is. I think because in life, if you wanna achieve something, you have to kind of suffer and sacrifice. We've all gotten so used to it that we've forgotten that not everything is work. The point of hobbies is to do something that is enjoyable and that makes you feel good about yourself, not something that makes you suffer. And I think it's that hustle, Ghahain said, that has made us lose the plot on why we should do hobbies. We should do it to balance out all the hard work we do, not to add to it.