I understand, I've never understood hobbies, until now.
Hobbies are personal passions relegated to the edges of people's lives.
Costly, silly, even embarrasing at times, hobbies often are the only way that an individual can express themselves as an individual. And while it's true that for the last century at least, there has always been groups and clubs for certain types of hobbies and other enthusiams, it's really with the advent of the Internet that the millions of Elvis images painted on fine porcelain collectors and people interested in restaging Custer's last stand at Little Big Horn can connect. It's has to make you feel a whole less lonely as you polish your Air India Demitasse .