Demand a room full of masses what pursuit they have and you will



find as numerous results as there are people. Others will

profess that they don't have a hobby. They believably do; but

just don't label it as such. By definition, a hobby is an

activity or interest pursued outside one's average

business and active in primarily for joy.

Whether flying, stamp aggregation, chat rooms, trains,

softball,scrapbooking, golf, reading, painting, tap

dancing, yard work, crafts, auto mechanics, music, hunting

down garage sales, sewing, fishing, cooking, boating,

furniture refinishing, javelin flipping or a embarrassment of

other activenesses or concerns the key ingredient is balance.

You must receive remainder between your family life and your

outside activities.

Too much of a good thing turns bad. Everyone should have an

outlet and a particular interest that they delight doing for

themselves. Self indulging, to a point, is quite safe.

Getting By from day to day labors to take some time to dedicate

to your flight hobby or concentration is therapeutic.

You've all seen, "if Mamma ain't happy, no one's happy."

It doesn't affair if your role is father, mother, husband,

wife, boyfriend, girl, son, daughter, brother or

sister, if you're just going to work or school and have no

real outside activities, you're probably not always the most

friendly person to be some.

Conversely, if you immerse yourself and it looks to others that

all you concern about or all you ever wish to do is fly all day

(or hang around the airport), you're dressing yourself up or

keeping up unsatisfied. People deal with depressive disorder in many

ways. Some eternal sleep all the time. Others need to do nothing but

read,read, read. Still others will pass hours upon hours

on a lower floor making a bigger, faster widget, just to avoid

the real cause of their defeats. Hobbies are funny

to be a safe outlet, not a catalyst to ignore matters that

need dealing.

Likewise, hobbies can get very high-priced. Positive, flying, snow

mobiles, motorcycles and ski equipment are plain

expensive. But sometimes those on the face of it low cost

activenesses can impart up. You come out out with trying to budget

for the day-to-day flying lessons. Then you need (or want) the

unnecessary (but fun) goodies that we all "need" to engage

our mania. "Let's see, do we pay the mortgage this month,

or get that (fill in the blank) that you just have to have?"

If your flying hobby is doing more damage than good, if it's

plunging into the family budget and time allocation, more

than you can or should be spending, it's time to

reassess. Not stop the flying, mind you, just make positive

it's right for you and your home and its life style.