Hobbies, hobbies, hobbies! (And even more hobbies!)

As you might have noticed by now, I have many hobbies.
Yes, I play the banjo, harmonica, guitar, and other various oddball instruments. (Okay, I attempt to play them for the time being.)
I also have a collection of yo-yos, Donald Duck comics, and well, let's just say several other collections.
Woodworking, leathercraft, magic and illusions, reading, writing, etc... I've done that too.

The question, WHY?

Everyone should partake in a hobby. It's fun and mentally challenging. (You know what I mean.)
The point is, there's much more that comes out of doing something than reading about it. I used to read about and watch magicians on television for years. I wanted so badly to do what they did that I bought every book I could on the subject and learned every trick. And, later on, I was able to apply the knowledge I learned from them to other disciplines. If you are wondering, the overall implecation was in circumventing things to make something work. If I was in a bind to get something done, I knew some very oddball information about what I had available and I could improvise something new.
In fact, that's the biggest gain from hobbies: improvisation and application.
You can gain useful information from anything. Name it and you can use it somewhere else. The only thing is, sometimes it's not always obvious as to what it can do for you. However, I know it works.
And there, that's just the beginning of some long discussion I'll carry on from now to whenever.
Later