How often do you turn back the clock to look on your earlier days? I chuckle at my youthful curiosity when I loved trying and discovering new things, cherishing life, its mysteries and complexity. Every time I rewind to those times I’m hit with nostalgia as well as a certain impulse to pursue my passions and continue this addictive quest for knowledge.
Among my early pastimes were ‘ancient’ hobbies like scrapbooking, spending hours on cutting out, sorting and glueing countless photos of airplanes onto the blank pages. There were stamp-collecting, chess, preserving insects, and perhaps less obscure nowadays, fishkeeping and aquariums. They all in their own ways have opened the way to a wider world and helped me decide what kind of person I am. How about you? Have you abandoned your old interests, labelling them as silly and outdated? Or do you still bring back things of the past to feel good about life?
