A Hobby Of the Past

Life would be absolutely tedious and dull without hobbies. Everyone has an activity they like to do on a daily basis. Whether it be reading a good book, playing Sudoku or crosswords, gardening, or color coding the sock drawer; everyone has their own unique hobby that they have adapted to. My hobby is a thing of the past that I have not participated in in a long time. However, ten years ago, I had no inkling that my hobby would be my career that I will pursue in the future.

This activity originally started when I was about six years old. My grandfather was a collector of Native American artifacts such as tools, weapons, and animal skins. He would tell me what each item was used for and where he found it. My grandfather also told me stories of Indian tribes who lived in North America and native people that he had met who gave some of the objects to him. His stories were so interesting to me that I decided that I wanted to find my own objects and be able to tell stories about them to other people.

By my house was a small river that my sister and I would play next to. Along this river was a huge oak tree with thick trunks covered in moss that curved outward to create an opening within itself. This tree was almost like one that would be seen in a fairytale; or so it seemed when I was six years old. This enchanted tree is where my sister and I would play and spend most of our summer afternoons in. One day my sister found a rusty, jagged, and circular metal object in the river. Although we had no idea what this piece was, we hung the item on a broken branch inside the tree as our imaginary clock for our house. It was not long after that we found more rustic items in the river to add to our mythical domain.

My heart raced and my sto...

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...s of digging with my bare hands in a muddy river would lead up to me going to college and majoring in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology. Hobbies can be fun little activities to do when passing the time or they change the way one lives out life. Hobbies are treasures that each and every one of us possesses; we must do what we can to maintain them otherwise life would be unadventurous.

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