Hello and welcome. My name is Mary and I'm the host of Prologs, a lifestyle podcast where each episode is like a digital journal entry detailing whatever it is I'm going through in life at the moment. I talk about my journey with mental health, relationships, wellness, beauty, personal development, and more. So join me every Monday morning for a reminder that we're all still figuring out life for the first time and you are still in the beginning of your personal story. Every time I go to start recording a new episode, I feel like I

just forget how to talk and forget how to be a normal person and how to greet people. And I need

to get over that. Hello and welcome back. In the season two opener last week, I touched on hobbies

and how 2025 is my year of hobbies and building my

confidence through solo travel, solo activities, and creating new hobbies for myself and falling in love

with new things. And so I wanted today's episode to be all about hobbies because you probably need one.

When I took my three month break, my need for new hobbies became really apparent to me.

I had this moment where I was like, what do I like to do? You and you meet a new person, because I've

met so many new people lately, and they ask, what do you like to do? I hate not having a solid

answer to that question. I hate feeling unfulfilled. I hate feeling like my life isn't full of

interesting, well-rounded activities.

And so I was like, well, nothing's stopping me from finding new hobbies, but it's just going to take work and time and intention.

And that's why hobbies is going to be a defining word for my 2025.

But I think a lot of us are in the same boat.

Finding new hobbies as an adult feels daunting if you're not already good at something or if you haven't carried a hobby over from your childhood. So because I'm embarking on this journey myself, I've written down

not only 52 hobby ideas that I'm going to give you guys at the end of this episode. We're also going to

talk about hobbies and the importance of having them in general. So if this is you, you feel like you

don't have any hobbies outside of media consumption, which calling myself out right now,

this episode is for you and I hope you love it. Okay, so I recently realized that I couldn't really name my hobbies outside of reading and going outside. And I think those are two pretty good

ones, but those are the hobbies I've had my entire life and it just didn't feel like enough.

I've had a lot of conversations with new people lately where

they ask me what I like to do and I'm like, oh, I like to read and I like to go outside. And then I

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