At first it very much felt like wishful thinking but making this website has cemented this belief I've had for a little while: 2025 is the year of Hobbying. As much as I enjoy being born in the digital age, throughout my life I could never help but feel like generations before me lived their lives to the fullest in a way I never even in my dreams could achieve. People went to life-changing concerts for 15 bucks, everyone was in a band, classmates went to eachother's houses just because, families had 20 years of memories on their camrecorders... And while I'm still waiting for the ticketmaster money laundering trial, I don't think we're getting any of those things back because my pseudo nostalgia isn't stopping the world from changing. However. That doesn't mean there's nothing we can do!
One of the aspects of today's world I truly believe we can regain control over is the things we love and what we do with them. People still love pop stars, people still love video games, people still love fashion. But for whatever (actually easy to pinpoint) reason, now the only valid way to vent about your passions is on the who-can-I-enrage-today-app-that-shall-not-be-named.
What I'm getting at is that you can still talk about your favorite things in the world without literally getting high blood pressure as a consequence. I think things have been looking up for me in unprecented ways the day I started going to my school's crochet club. I had always wanted to pick up a hobby that involved crafts, that seemed attainable, and just fun to do. Since then, I started knitting, started picking up my bass guitar more, dug deeper into all of my console and pc interests and went ahead with this website! The feeling of actually doing something instead of scrolling whenever I have free time is honestly so, so freeing.
As this website becomes more personalized, I'll make sections for each of my hobbies to feel some sort of accountability as my virgo self always needs rules to follow...