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Permission slip: you are allowed to be bad at it

Hobbies do not owe you talent. They owe you an hour of peace.

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A messy home art table with watercolour paints and a half-finished painting

Somewhere along the line we decided hobbies had to become side hustles. They do not. You are allowed to paint a wonky bowl of fruit, sing flat in the shower, and knit a scarf with one dramatically wider end.

The measure of a hobby is not the output. It is whether an hour disappeared and you felt better afterwards.

What is something you happily do badly?

#OtterCreate #HobbyJoy #MadeNotPerfect

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