{"id":405,"date":"2019-09-19T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T13:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2019-09-18T21:11:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T01:11:57","slug":"throwback-thursday-hobbies-and-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/19\/throwback-thursday-hobbies-and-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Hobbies and Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
WARNING: There is a small part that pertains to self harm. You've been warned.<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Good morning everyone! Has the week been treating you well? Today, I thought I\u2019d talk about a couple things from my youth\u2026 namely, my hobbies and habits. I have some old hobbies I\u2019d like to take up again someday, though I\u2019ve little funds to take part in them. Habits, meanwhile, are things I\u2019ve changed a fair bit in my life comparatively. My hobbies were almost all always based on the arts, but my habits\u2026 Well, let\u2019s get into that a bit later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first hobby I wanted to talk about is scrapbooking. Scrapbooking was something I took great interest in from the time I was in elementary school and joined the club (or the equivalent of one at any rate). In high school, at my first special needs school, one of the elective classes was scrapbooking, which I immediately rushed towards. It was so much fun! It brought back fond memories, and it brought my creative juices to a new light. I\u2019d really like to get back into that someday, when I have the funds for some art supplies I\u2019d need\/like to do with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another hobby that comes to mind is golf. I wasn\u2019t as big on the driving range that my grandpa used to take me to as I was miniature golf, but I stopped playing slowly as I got older for some reason. I haven\u2019t been in at least eight years, I want to say? I\u2019m certain I was a teenager when I did. Again, this can cost money, and I also can\u2019t drive, so I\u2019d have to take a service like Lyft to the only one I know in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another physical hobby I used to like and still occasionally take part in is bowling. This is something I got into when I was really little, as my mother was a league bowler and dad had taken part in some too. My mom was as close to a pro athlete I\u2019ll ever have met, most likely. I went bowling last year for the first time in a decade, and finally figured out how to not completely suck the entire time without bumpers: I need to bowl left handed. That was a fun thing to learn, in my opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I saw some kids the last time I went to the park all playing basketball together, and that reminded me of how much I enjoyed the YMCA team I was forced onto my by aunt. I\u2019d love to find a basketball to take to the park and just shoot some hoops on my own sometime! Wow, I had a lot of sporty hobbies in my youth\u2026 It\u2019s kind of amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, on to habits. I had some pretty whacked out habits and routines when I was young. With my first bipolar manic phase, I slept 3 hours a night like clockwork, and could never sleep more than that. I used to only drink cold water, which I nearly never do now. My hygiene was trash, which lead to me being bullied- but that\u2019s a story for another time. And finally, I always kept a journal- which likely is why I\u2019m so intrigued by bullet journals and the like now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s one habit I\u2019m proud of myself for breaking though. For those of you who don\u2019t know, I used to self-harm a lot. It was usually just biting my fingers or my arm as hard as I possibly could (the marks concerned my family, however, even if I never bled). However, I had a habit of locking myself in the bathroom, crying while sitting against the door, and staring at a sharp object fighting the urge to slash it upon my skin. It was well known what I was intending to do, so at one point the police had to be called to get me out of there when I refused. When I say I was in a bad place in my school years, I\u2019m not kidding around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I do still bite myself on occasion- but I\u2019ve gotten a lot better at holding back, even if sometimes that means sitting on my hands to keep in control. I can\u2019t bite what I can\u2019t reach, after all! I still think of the butterfly project as a great aid to me, and fairly regularly draw a butterfly with sharpie on my hand, to promote myself to not bite it. If you don\u2019t know what the butterfly project is, you can read more about it here<\/a>. Just know it\u2019s not just for cutters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that\u2019s that for today, my friends. What hobbies did you give up since childhood that you want to take back? Do you have any habits you\u2019d like to fix, or ones you\u2019ve conquered and are proud of? I want to hear all about your experiences with these subjects in the comments! C\u2019mon, snap to it! Please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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