Related Recs

🌟

hobbies (that you’re bad at)

I have been on and off playing the guitar for a little while now (maybe a year?). I am just god awful. But I really want to be good. Sometimes I feel like a fraud even holding my guitar. But I have decided that no one said I had to be good. Your hobbies are valid no matter your skill level. <3 Ps. My guitar is pink and has gold sparkles on it and I think that’s fun and cool.

@valoorie

Aug 14, 2024

🏎

doing something you are really bad at and knowing you Will get better

This is my number one hobby at the moment, before this I spent years trying something, being bad and immediately giving up. Last year I learned how to drive a manual (again) as an adult. Humbling! public embarrassment! bunny hopping, stalling, hill starts. But the whole time I was laughing and having the best time because I knew at some point I’d be able to do it. Now I don’t even think about it when I’m driving I’m just there to hoon around and change my little gears — then today I stalled it out of nowhere and I was like yeah! There it is! my favourite little reminder that you can learn things as an adult and it not be so horrific that you have to give up. It’s funny to be bad and it almost doesn’t last long enough. Bringing this energy into heaps of different things now — I love to be bad at playing basketball and playing bass and swimming.

@rinroisin

Feb 1, 2024

🎨

Be bad at your hobbies

Like, no shit! Why do we expect to be experts in everything we try! Do something you’re curious about and you’ll learn some stuff and learn about yourself and eventually you’ll get better. Or maybe you’ll always be bad. Who cares!

@Shadowbeni

May 1, 2024

Top Recs from @lanzalasalagua

👁

Paying more attention!

I always find weird when people talk about child-like wonder and how it fades, truth is, it does, but it doesn't have to. It fades when you are a teenager who thinks they know everything and for most people it doesn't return. I've found that child-like wonder is just, paying attention, let me explain. What was the last time you checked a license plate for a funny number o letters? what was the last time you checked out the pattern in a leaf? How it feels to have bug crawl on your skin. When you pay more attention, you start to wonder the whys, the hows and the whos. Please don't let life just pass you by, at least give it a good look. Why do you think the light in this room was purple?

@lanzalasalagua

Jan 18, 2025

3

😃

Create despite not feeling inspired

Recently, I haven't been feeling inspired to make music or play my instruments, idk why, rough few weeks ig. And as you might have seen, I also haven't been inspired to write some recs. Erich Fromm once wrote that an artist must have knowledge in their field, and that they have to create, despite not having the right tools/object of creation, because if a painter spends years waiting for the perfect muse, when they find it, their skill won't be enough. This was an analogy to love, but I think it also applies as what it is at face value. If you don't create, you won't get to know what you like, to love the world through your art, and even if you find the perfect idea for a song, painting, etc. You might not be able to make it without that knowledge

@lanzalasalagua

Feb 10, 2025

😺

Silly Roblox games

Some of my best screenshots come from silly little Roblox games, like this one from a Radiohead obby

@lanzalasalagua

2d ago

1