Lifelong hobbies

I realised earlier this year that pretty much all of my hobbies were fairly short-term.. I doubt I'll be on getting bans on boards, gaming, or hobby coding when I'm 60. Maybe but I think I'll have lost interest by then.

So I looked at longer-term stuff I could take up that I'd have with me forever pretty much. For me, I guess a long-term hobby shouldn't necessarily rely on a social element, and it should have room for improvement and maybe achievement. So while reading is a hobby, it's not one that you'll be better at when you're 60 because you started at 40. It's lifelong but can be taken up at any time.

I started with cryptic crosswords in February and love them. I printed one out earlier and spent two hours working away at it. Pretty much limitless room for improvement. Next, I'm going to get a piano because I've always wanted to play. Hopefully will rent one and get it delivered tomorrow and then buy one in a few months. Other ideas I have would be woodworking or rebuilding old cars or motorbikes. A few friends I have here do the motorbike thing and sell them afterwards.

Do ye guys have many of these lifelong hobbies? Any suggestions?

LessOutragePlz

Heading to the gym and lifting some weights if you don't already do so.

McGinniesta

I started playing chess yesterday.

I'm 43

Aongus Von Bismarck

Compulsive masturbation is almost certainly the main hobby of most of the regulars around here.

Kylta

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Compulsive masturbation is almost certainly the main hobby of most of the regulars around here.

Right on brother I couldn't have put it better while my other hand was busy

Kylta

Hiking and hill walking is a good pastime, writing and researching I fine a great hobby

Capt'n Midnight

McGinniesta wrote: »

I started playing chess yesterday.

I'm 43

Go is much better.


BASE jumping can become a lifelong hobby.

JohnCleary

Plenty of people whom I'm sure would consider "Layabouting" a life long hobby / vocation.

jazz_jazz

Photography.
Just start with the camera on your phone and if you get hooked then you can start getting cameras, filters, tripods etc but these can work out expensive enough.

I'd second hiking/hill walking.

Stovepipe

lifelong:arts and craft; painting, drawing, modelmaking, woodwork such as bowl turning or walking stick making. As for restoring cars and bikes, that's different. You need a decent workshop and lots of storage space and you need skills with hand and power tools and you need likeminded mates as you will always be looking for spares or a helping hand or you will be asked for same.
For your head, do a few courses to get you thinking. Lots of good short term cheap courses to get you started.

Strumms

Photography too, since my teens when my Dad gave an old early 1980’s Olympus camera an OM-10 which I still have... I was hooked, still am.

Gym too, I’m really only going since 2016 but I can honestly say with 100% certainty that it’s going to be a constant for my whole life. Nothing else I’ve know enables your health and wellbeing then going for regular workouts, feel well, look well, BE well.

Traveling is my number one love as in hobby. It’s an expensive one unfortunately but I love being with friends, family, and even solo on occasion.. booking, preparing, going... away and leaving the stresses and familiarity of your regular life aside... with traveling it’s a break, its rest, it’s an education, it’s fun, it’s rewarding to your soul in so many ways... you come back enlightened, rested, refreshed and often with a different perspective on life, your own life.

cdeb

McGinniesta wrote: »

I started playing chess yesterday.

I'm 43

Was going to suggest it myself (obviously!)

Playing 25 years, and stronger now than ever before. Have improved a fair bit in the past two years as well (so not just that I'm holding my strength)

Your Face

My long term hobbies are reading, guitar, fixing things, home-brew and working out.
All of these can easily be replaced with short periods of doing faak all.

Gardening. Providing you have a garden, you can do it for life. You can grow new things every year, and find new ways to cook your fruit and veg.

Strumms

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Compulsive masturbation is almost certainly the main hobby of most of the regulars around here.

You calling us a shower of **** ? :eek:

Gretas Gonna Get Ya!

Strumms wrote: »

You calling us a shower of **** ? :eek:

The age profile around here, I doubt it's a shower anymore... probably more like a dribble!

Yeah, take up Go/ baduk..

RMAOK

Does talking shïte count as a lifelong hobby?

Alpha Romeo

Deleted User wrote: »

I realised earlier this year that pretty much all of my hobbies were fairly short-term.. I doubt I'll be on getting bans on boards, gaming, or hobby coding when I'm 60. Maybe but I think I'll have lost interest by then.

So I looked at longer-term stuff I could take up that I'd have with me forever pretty much. For me, I guess a long-term hobby shouldn't necessarily rely on a social element, and it should have room for improvement and maybe achievement. So while reading is a hobby, it's not one that you'll be better at when you're 60 because you started at 40. It's lifelong but can be taken up at any time.

I started with cryptic crosswords in February and love them. I printed one out earlier and spent two hours working away at it. Pretty much limitless room for improvement. Next, I'm going to get a piano because I've always wanted to play. Hopefully will rent one and get it delivered tomorrow and then buy one in a few months. Other ideas I have would be woodworking or rebuilding old cars or motorbikes. A few friends I have here do the motorbike thing and sell them afterwards.

Do ye guys have many of these lifelong hobbies? Any suggestions?

Yeah, piano or guitar. Once you can play through a whole song without messing up you will never look back.

Strumms

Gretas Gonna Get Ya! wrote: »

The age profile around here, I doubt it's a shower anymore... probably more like a dribble!

:pac:

Alpha Romeo

Alpha Romeo wrote: »

Yeah, piano or guitar. Once you can play through a whole song without messing up you will never look back.

I played guitar for ten years and started to pick it up again in the last two weeks. That's when I decided that I may as well spend that time learning piano instead of getting really good at guitar again. Then I'll have both.

john123470

I second an instrument. I've played piano since i was a child
- no concert pianist but, if you have a turn for it, its a great way to pass time learning new pieces or simply doodling. Most pieces - even if you don't read music, have tutorials on youtube. Just copy n paste. Yann Tiersen has some neat playable pieces

Exercise, as mentioned above, is critical for well being. Mine is
cycling - 2 hr pedals morning time (7am'ish) when the air is pure.

I recently took up archery. I am not currently living in ireland
but i know they have centres there. Quite a learning curve ..
From drawing the string to releasing the arrow. And,
above all, its quiet. No fuss, no noise You develop in proportion to your practice

And Masturbation, yes .. even more enyoyable if you factor in the above activities

Getting away from yourself .. not taking it all so Seriously .. = hobbies, fun
Good idea for a thread, OP

completedit

Yeah I need to find a hobby too. I love tennis but I'm just not good enough to really keep playing constantly. I play when it's sunny and the sun hits off my racket as if a sign from above.

Football. Love it but again, I like being good at stuff. I'm playing less and less and my first touch is now like a cross, so slowly playing less frequently.

Did climbing once or twice. Interesting in that you get to use your body in different ways but wouldn't like to take it seriously. Good for goofing around.

nthclare

Fishing with a rod since I was 11, I used to catch minnow's and stickleback before that with a net.

Been adventurous since I was really young too, and had a great interest of history, folklore,unsolved mysteries, ghost stories and poetry.

I just love the outdoors and natural world and , I never fitted in with the norm.
Always dreaming of different realms and dimensions, what lies beneath kind of thought process.
Accults and ufology.

I love old buildings and stories about haunted houses and locations.

I still have an interest all of the above.

utyh2ikcq9z76b

RMAOK wrote: »

Does talking shïte count as a lifelong hobby?

Your just not describing it right you have to use the terminology of another poster

Kylta wrote: »

writing and researching I fine a great hobby

corner of hells

jazz_jazz wrote: »

Photography.
Just start with the camera on your phone and if you get hooked then you can start getting cameras, filters, tripods etc but these can work out expensive enough.

I'd second hiking/hill walking.

I'm fond of a bit of gardening and recently managed to get a couple of photos of bees doing thier bee thing on flowers .Even snapped one in flight coming in to land.
Apparently theres a 102 types of bees in Ireland.

JasonStatham

Writing. Hoping to get something published next year.

3d4life

Deleted User wrote: »

I realised earlier this year that pretty much all of my hobbies were fairly short-term.. I doubt I'll be on getting bans on boards, gaming, or hobby coding when I'm 60. Maybe but I think I'll have lost interest by then.

So I looked at longer-term stuff .....

OP, you are in the process of morphing into Gyles Brandreth

Of course, Mr Brandreth has written a relevant book :

biko

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Go is much better.

If you want old school, look into Royal Game of Ur.

McGinniesta

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Compulsive masturbation is almost certainly the main hobby of most of the regulars around here.

I woke up with a raging jumbo horn on me this morning.

You just have to do something with it. She wouldnt let me stick up her so I had to jerk it off.

worded

Swan whispering. Looks good on your CV too

bertiebomber

animal husbandry having to look after animals cats dogs chickens horses these can be life long interests i have all of them and have had them since childhood am in my 5th decade now still have the dogs chickens and a horse.

Mr. CooL ICE

Became a dad last year and have another baby on the way. My time for hobbies has been massively reduced and will be reduced even further.

That aside, I've been playing bass guitar on and off for 19 years. Been lifting weights for a few years and before that, was mad into running for a few years. Also enjoyed my unfair share of computer games since being single digits.

These days, I have to prioritise whatever is best for the head and mind. That means lifting weights when possible and after that, computer games. Have no room for music stuff any more so that stuff is being sold on, which is kinda sad. End of an era for me. Until my inevitable mid-life crisis.

petronius

I think hobbies are great, I think we need hobbies which both exercise our bodies and minds as we grow older.
Reading chess other board games, puzzles many which can be via your phone tablet etc. can help any mental decline as the years go on. In this rain drenched country it is often hard to be active and get out, but there are lots of activites which we have in ireland which many are being discovered during the pandemic - anything which gets you off your a...armchair and out , hiking, jogging, wind surfing, horse riding, bowls ....

CrankyHaus

I've been looking at getting into trolling for some time.
Not the tiresome kind that involves four letter words and racist or misogynistic abuse.
Rather the more subtle, slow paced windups that say Ken M is well known for.
I've been studying the form of one or two low-key trolls on here and I could really see it as a hobby that would last decades if done right. I may PM them with an application to be their understudy.

Tig98

true-or-false wrote: »

Gardening. Providing you have a garden, you can do it for life. You can grow new things every year, and find new ways to cook your fruit and veg.

Something really rewarding about gardening is that it can take place over an extended time line. From buying interesting seeds, a few years of minding until they reach maturity and then watch them flower and reproduce all on their own. I know plants are designed to survive and most don't need much attention, but I still find it pretty neat.

Don't bother with bonsai, unless you want your heart broke

amacca

Golf played recreationally can be a hobby of sorts

Combines a long walk in nice outdoor setting with short periods of highly unnatural bodily contortions

If youre anything like yours truly youll start of **** and become rather self satisfied as you become somewhat less **** with practice

You just need to get over the frustrating initial hump of causing head injuries on adjacent fairways with your tee shots.

It can have a nice social element to it as well.

Well the piano rental arrived today. An old Clavinova. You wouldn't believe but this got delivered on a Honda Dream, which is a really small little moped. 103euro for three months including delivery here and back, so pretty risk-free way to test out a new hobby. If I buy something from that shop, the rental fee comes off the price.



Not sure what to do next but I'll work at it.

megaten

Drawing is my main active hobby I suppose. I actually think its kind of a ****e hobby because easy to get into the mindset your never working on it enough.

Ultrflat

I think my life long hobbie would be flying kites. just so much fun, I'm not a kite surfer or anything but there's something said to just flying a kite on the beach or getting dragged around the beach by a 4.1 meter kite

other then that I loved windsurfing as a child hill walking and I still to some degree rock climb.

jester77

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Compulsive masturbation is almost certainly the main hobby of most of the regulars around here.

It's a bit of an odd hobby when you think about it. Everyone enjoys it, a lot won't even admit they take part, some are embarrassed about it and it's almost impossible to do in a group these days.

kowloon

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Compulsive masturbation is almost certainly the main hobby of most of the regulars around here.

We can't all afford to hire two hookers to put on a show before we murder them.

jester77 wrote: »

It's a bit of an odd hobby when you think about it. Everyone enjoys it, a lot won't even admit they take part, some are embarrassed about it and it's almost impossible to do in a group these days.

Furry conventions. That is all.

Mister Vain

Taking photos of my neighbor while she sunbathes in the garden. I don't think I'll be seeing much of her this week though.

looksee

Why feel the need to have a permanent hobby? Why not drift from one to another over the years?

I have a lifetime of crafty type hobbies behind me but now, while I still enjoy reading about them and planning them, I actually don't do any of them. Partly because I have developed arthritis in my hands (which also finished - or maybe was caused by - archery) but I don't somehow feel the urge to do crafty things.

I am still gardening though, and doing diy. You can hold garden tools and power tools in a way that is ok with arthritis, but holding a needle or an artist's brush or craft knife is uncomfortable.

2lazytogetup

there must be some winning formula to having a hobby stick.

1. a social element (we are social creatures)
2. something you actually enjoy, rather than something you would like to enjoy. id love to enjoy programing computer games or learn a language but doubt ill ever enjoy the nuts and bolts, the nitty gritty of it.
3. something you will be good at.

I wouldnt worry about how cool, or good for you it is. if i was actually interested in train spotting id do it, despite the slagging id get.and wont worry how intellectual it is. some people want do something challenging like build something. while others are happy to play Bingo. im assuming based on my understanding there is no skill in bingo.

plus hobby interests changed. i went back to some computer games and found them very boring, even though i loved them at one time.

Finally id suggest a hobby that will get you to that third place, whether its a golf club, bridge (playing cards) club. The third place being not work or home. But with home working, and internet shopping, it would be the "second" place

Stovepipe

Join your local Men's Shed,for a start.

ShatterAlan

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Compulsive masturbation is almost certainly the main hobby of most of the regulars around here.

I decry boot-cut jeans when I'm not ****.

petronius

Ok I am not a golfer - but i reluctantly admit it can be a great source of exercise and company for people throughout their life.
In the UK you often see some of advanced years playing bowls which has to be a good thing
Fishing is another activity which is good for all ages
Drawing and Painting (as bob ross says anyone can do it) good activities for the mind and soul

looksee

2lazytogetup wrote: »

there must be some winning formula to having a hobby stick.

some people want do something challenging like build something. while others are happy to play Bingo. im assuming based on my understanding there is no skill in bingo.

Can't agree with that I once (just once!) got inveigled into going to play bingo in a proper bingo hall. There are lots of rules and customs. One, thou shalt not speak, oops. Second you really, really have to listen and pay attention or you miss a call. Then you have to play about 5 sheets at once, one sheet is for wimps. And you have to know what to shout, and precisely how to shout it. Don't call 'Bingo' if the call is 'House' or 'Line' or whatever (I forget now). And with just the precise level of ennui, clarity and confidence. Its very shaming for a neighbour to have to reinforce your call for you.

I came away exhausted, I can't recall whether I won or not.

iamstop

I started collecting and DJing records. 25 years later my basement is wall to wall records.

McHardcore

id try out a few things. I got into motorbikes with doing up a old honda 50 that belonged to father