Hobbies

On a rare holiday Monday, it occurred to me that I have precisely three hobbies. And they require varying levels of finances to be kept alive. 

The first, Music, doesn't require money. It requires a talent that I suppose I have, presently, though fading as age catches up. And it requires skill that I've acquired, that'll stay with me, hopefully till the end.  

The next is Reading. It requires some amount of money, but not something that's unaffordable. And Tsundoku in my family has ensured that there's never a dearth of reading material.

The third is traveling. Here again I use a foreign word to precisely describe my kind of traveling - Fernweh. Born out of an urge to see the world before my life in it ends. And that requires money. Money that seems presently to be of unattainable proportions.

So I'll keep myself busy with the first two for the time being, till I come into resources, hopefully in this lifetime, to pursue the third. I doubt today if I'll ever be in the physical or financial state to pursue all three at the same time. I once did, and hope to again, someday. As Dumas has written in The Count of Monte Christo, "Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom lies contained in these two words - Wait and Hope."