Confessions Of An Extreme Hobbyist - by Rohini Vibha

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A lesson on leisure-gone-wrong and mental health.

Crossing the finish line of my first marathon. Until pandemic, running was my means to an end. It was a low-cost form of exercise that I could maintain no matter where I was traveling or how much time I had. I’d squeeze in a three-miler before work, between meetings, or on a hotel gym treadmill before bed. I only ever had one goal: cross the run off the list. I didn’t think of running as a notable hobby, let alone leisure or fun. It was what I did before I could “have fun.” I had no formal program around it the way I did with my other hobbies like writing or baking. I wasn’t doing it to…

Confessions Of An Extreme Hobbyist - by Rohini Vibha

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