hobbies that make you impossible to bore

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hobbies that make you impossible to bore

things to do when you want your free time to feel a little more interesting than scrolling through everyone else’s

ayushi thakkar

Oct 15, 2026

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i’ve noticed that boredom has become a surprisingly difficult feeling to experience properly. the moment there’s nothing happening, my hand reaches for my phone before i’ve even decided what i want to look at. suddenly i’m watching somebody reorganise their kitchen in another country, learning about a celebrity feud i have absolutely no investment in and wondering whether i should buy a kind of japanese stationery. twenty minutes later, i’m sufficiently entertained to have forgotten i was bored, although i can’t say i’ve enjoyed myself much.

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the thing is that i have plenty of interests. books i want to read, things i’d love to learn and an ever-growing collection of hobbies that sound wonderful in theory. but having interests and having something enjoyable to do with an ordinary weekday evening are two different things.

i think the trick is to find activities that have a little momentum of their own. something you can return to without much preparation, get better at gradually or become so absorbed in that you forget to check the time. preferably something that doesn’t require buying an entire new personality’s worth of equipment.

here are a few i’m fond of:

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