A COLLEAGUE of mine and I chatted via Facebook, a famous online social networking. We conversed about how our lives had been lately after I rendered my two-month vacation leave from work to go to Shanghai, China in a few days.
With her usual chatty, lively and curios personality, she asked me how I felt lately and how I felt about leaving the country, as well.
Though, I already got a hint from her questions that she’s referring to my love life, with me leaving my boyfriend for three months. Undecided with my answer and not even knowing how to answer her, I just told her I had mixed emotions. Part of me was excited to go while the other half wanted to stay for several reasons. I told her I’m really going to miss my hobby.
Curious and thinking that I misspelled the word “hubby” into “hobby,” she was about to send me a comforting message about it; yet before she could send her succeeding messages, I already told her, “I won’t be able to design more fashion accessories when I get there because I’ll be working hard…” That’s when she found the humor after realizing that I used the right word and spelling when I typed down the word, “hobby.”
Personally, if I compare my boyfriend (“hubby”) and my hobby, which is designing and handcrafting ethnic fashion accessories out of recycled and indigenous materials, I would miss my hobby more than my so-called “hubby” or boyfriend.
With my hobby, I can express all my negative emotions whenever I would fight with my boyfriend, my parents and feel bad at work. My hobby is my biggest comfort whenever I am depressed or discouraged. It may not hug me like what my boyfriend can do, but it gives me a mean to express and release all the tension I feel inside, reducing the burdens I have inside.
Nevertheless, this doesn’t mean I would exchange my boyfriend for my hobby, since these two are incomparable and are both important to me. What I just want to imply is, let’s not forget ourselves when we are in love. Let’s not be too dependent on our other half. Let’s not let our heart rule over our minds. It’s good to follow our hearts when we are in love, but we should know when to use our brain when our heart is leading us to the direction of a deep ravine. We should know when to use our brain to take our hearts back home… and usually, our home is where we kept the great things we once enjoy doing, and one of these great things is our hobby.
Let’s also invest on the things that allow us to venture our creativity, give us sanctuary from our pains, and fill us with joy and gratification in life, like our hobbies! Whatever these may be, these will be our comfort whenever our hubbies would leave us behind.
These are my hobbies, some of the accessories and crafts I created and designed:
These are fashion Summer earrings made from assorted wooden and glass beads accented with an olive green-shade tiny sea shells.
These are full moon wooden loop earrings in different designs, crafted with wooden materials. These wooden loops are just recycled from used wooden materials for furniture making.
These ham-look-alike earrings are eco-friendly. They are made from recycled Angel's Burgers' plastic bags accented with red and black plastic beads. A lot of Western buyers are amazed with its concept.
For more information about these handicrafts, you may contact the website admin or inquire from BISA'G UNSA Online Store. Thank you.
