Hobbies and work always seem to show a spirit of conflict when they are put together. The elderly claims that one may negatively impact the other if they are not closely related. Nevertheless, there are three reasons why we should take time to relax with hobbies or even physical activities that are very different from what we do at work.
1. Interior potential will be discovered by having different kinds of hobbies.
Possible abilities and practical skills that individuals may possess will be limited if their hobbies are identical to their work. Contrarily, differences between work and hobbies provide more possibilities for people to explore themselves. For example, a PhD majoring in history may also enjoy singing and will end up winning the school singing competition. In this case, he wouldn't have known what else he could achieve besides history if he had never taken singing as a hobby.
2. Stepping into various fields of activities enlarges one’s social circle and may benefit one’s work life.
This enables one to meet more people with the same interests and allows us to enrich our personalities besides our workmates and daily work fun. Suppose there is a white collar man who enjoys playing golf with his VIP client on weekends. This may offer him chances to meet more upper-class clients introduced by this VIP during their golfing time, which has high possibilities to benefit him for his work.
3. Get more different life experiences.
Admittedly, sophisticated skills and specifically enhanced knowledge will be represented if your hobbies and your work are the same. It definitely shows your loyalty to what you are devoting yourself to. However, as perfect as it may seem, you also lose the chance to experience the happiness of your life in which you deserve. If a national swimmer is stuck in both the job and the hobby of swimming, he will never know how fun it is to take a ride in the park, or to sing a song karaoke just for relaxing, or even to lay under the sun with an iPod in his pocket. It isn't worth losing the happiness he ought to enjoy just for perfecting his professional skills.
Some people may give up different kinds of hobbies just because of a bunch of objective factors tell them that their work or major will be negatively influenced. But separating hobbies from work is beneficial in terms of these reasons above.
