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Social media really discourages people from taking up hobbies out of fear of being 'bad' (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I like plants and gardening. My appartment is full of plants and I have a small herb nursery in my window sill. I'm currently growing three basil plants and a pepper plant.

I go to social media for tips and tricks and as usual it's full of people with grade A set ups producing lots of herbs and veggies and stuff. I started growing my pepper plant and after weeks I managed to produce a whopping number of 1 pepper. The weird thought that occurred to me was: I failed. I failed because my pepper plant isn't as productive as the plants I see online.

Meanwhile: did I have fun doing this? Yes, I loved watching the progress of this plant. I did feel cool when I added my home grown pepper to my dinner. Isn't that what hobbies are about?

How many people are out there quitting things because they aren't immediately good at it because social media primed us to crave instant satisfaction through constant dopamine hits? Pick up hobbies, be bad at them, learn, have fun.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

In my case, I'm sort of 'skinny fat'(saw the term on yt). I have a belly(not too big, but noticeable) and when I try to flatten it up by decreasing food intake, the belly remains and my face starts to lose fat making me look malnourished.
Recently I git a pair of cheap dumbbells and started doing some rows, bicep curls, shrugs, tricep exercises etc.
I feel that my belly is in-effect smaller now, as other parts of my body are starting to look a bit bigger.
I also think that I should maybe practise holding in my stomach a bit, because when I see people on youtube, movies, random videos n all, most of them look like they are keeping it contracted.

And regarding rice, rice is very popular in my region too. We eat it in some form for all 3 meals.

Putting this as a separate comment, as it may be too much random stuff to comment here or bother you with, with me making this a pseudo health questions thread, going away from OP's topic. Will delete this comment if so.