hobby or way of life

[Tiley]

For me, it's an education first and then a hobby.

I love the whole process of learning, and so appreciating, the natural world around me. I love learning new skills (ironic, since they're all as old as the hills in reality!) and taking time to practise them. I also love sharing the knowledge and experience with others, be they students, family or friends.

But, deep down, it is a hobby. I'm lucky that it dovetails quite nicely with my 'day job' as a teacher, so I do enjoy fairly long periods off in which I can 'play'. Although the processes of foraging for fuel and food can be tough, I still return to the house feeling refreshed - reinvigorated - by the experience, purely because it is different from what might be called normality. I'm not sure I'd have quite as rosy an outlook if my everyday life depended on these skills but half of me would like to try ... just to see ...

 

[treefrog]

Another reason i ask is that when ever i am out in my woods that i play in regular i allways come back refreshed and feeling better. Now supposedly and i dont beleive this and if you do i have no problem with that and no offence ment is that you supposedly feel this after going to mass at church.

"My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing". ~Aldous Huxley

 

[durulz]

Hobby for me.
Although some of its central tenets do permeate aspects of my life.

 

[gregorach]

It's just a hobby, but hobbies are a way of life for me...

 

[Amon81]

It's just a hobby, but hobbies are a way of life for me...

That sums me up pretty well too.

I love modern life, but I love going back to basics too.

 

[porchini]

Its a hobby for me, but it does complement and inform other parts of my life. I think about it most of the time in one way or another. The beauty of the subject is its diversity weather your a birdwatcher, cook, canoeist into traditional craft there is something for everyone.

 

[MartiniDave]

It's a hobby for me, but a darned useful one.

One that reaches over and into my everyday life and many of my other hobbies and activities, like lighting the fire at home, building pheasant roosts and shelters in pens on the shoot, coming up with quick fixes at work building hides for shooting, making decoy pegs, etc etc.

Dave

 

[Klenchblaize]

NO! No, I'm simply not going to comment. No way. Just cant go through it so no, no, no!

Oh, all right then:

Spiritual fulfilment most certainly if not strictly a way of life.

Cheers

 

[dr jones]

im not sure how to catigories my thoughts on bushcraft . it has definately become a massive part of my life much to the annoyance of SWMBO. im always looking for uses for things i see disguarded by others . and am always looking for places to camp when im the passenger in the car . so its a major part of my life but not quite a way of life yet !!!

 

[Eric_Methven]

I'm always looking for uses for things i see discarded by others.

That's also known as Wombling!

 

[kINGPIN]

Its purely a hobby for me. I work 2 jobs so it is a little difficult to get out spur of the moment, but when I do its great. All my stress goes and there is a level of freedom you can't get anywhere else.

 

[Neumo]

For me, it's an education first and then a hobby.

That is a very good point. It's an interesting and unique opertunity to learn a whole new set of skills, to buy new toys (only for practicing new skills with, we keep telling her...) and lets you understand how the 'machine' of nature really works; for those of us who have not lived in the country all our lives.