kjanssen

Hey man, my first year at summer camp all I did was basket weaving, leather working, and pottery. I originally planned to do swimming and some other adventurous stuff but was too overwhelmed by the swim test to be allowed in the lake and had a bit of a meltdown before changing course. I spent the whole week chilling in camp or the crafting grove working with my hands - it was great.

A few years later I went to a different summer camp as a senior patrol leader and finally got my swimming badge along with canoeing and rock climbing - that was a great week too. Point being: there's value in the "boring" stuff, maybe even more so now that I'm established in my career and looking for a little more peace these days. Lately I've been strangely interested in weaving and am thinking of making a simple loom - maybe this goes back to my basket weaving experience when I was 10?

It's still better than Facebook, which groups you together with the people you know in real life, whether you share common interests or not. At least on Reddit you can sequester yourself to topic-related subs and stay away from the defaults. I've learned many useful things from the smaller, more specific subs, which are somewhat shielded from the cynicism of the larger subs (although there are still asshats, it is the internet after all).