My mom took a VRS from BSNL in Jan 2020. I have known her to be someone so fully dedicated to her work to the point on not having any hobbies. And so, I managed to put together a list of activities for her to try out in the hope that at least one or some of these will eventually become her hobbies.
Some of these are curated to her and some of these may seem outrageous! But hey! the idea is to try and see if she can take those risks!
Here’s the list if you will to share it with your mom/dad or just use for yourself!
- Grow vegetables
- Fly alone to another city
- Volunteer for charity
- Learn a foreign language – Speak 10 lines in this new language
- Gamble in Casino – put 5000Rs
- Learn to play violin
- Go horseback riding
- Have a spa day – get a massage
- Visit a distant friend or relative
- Write an article and publish on your blog or Arya’s blog
- Hot air balloon ride or paragliding
- Create the family tree / track down long-lost family
- Go scuba diving or snorkelling
- Sell something you have made yourself
- Go to a concert of a favourite band / singer
- Make a pot
- Make laddu, jalebi, mysore pak, mixture and chips at home
- Eat and stay at a 5star restaurant
- Take an online course
- Take a distant education course
- Take music lessons
- Learn stock trading and make 5000Rs
- Create a cooking video and upload on youtube (It is okay if it is private)
- Read a book/novel
- Complete reading mahabharatham, ramayanam
- Sing 3 songs on smule
- Make a tiktok video
- Stitch something – blouse/tshirt/kerchief
- Post 5 pictures and 5 stories on instagram
- Visit singapore
- Travel alone to some place for only recreational purpose
- Bake a cake
- Learn to use chopsticks
- Go swimming for 3 times in one month
- Finish a do it yourself project
- Make soap
- Make candle
- Through a Dart at a World Map and Fly to Wherever it Lands
- Create a passive income (Means make an income equal to your expenses so that you don’t have to work anymore)
- Organize a cooking class for apartment friends
- Become the apartment’s president/secretary/treasurer
- Do a photo walk
- Visit 3 of your fav temples
- Complete 3 sudoku puzzles
- Crochet a shawl
- Attend a live TED Talk that is on a subject that interests you.
- Make a chatbot on dialogflow
- Take tuition class for one semester
- Bob your hair
- Take a photo every day for a month.
- Do finger painting with acha and hang it in our house
- Make a list of your 5 close friends and send them a greeting card for their special days
- Watch a 3-D movie in the theater.
- Learn how to say “I love you” in 10 languages.
- Stream movie from hotstar/prime/netflix and watch on tv
- Recycle 2 old items (eg: bottles) and create a craft
- Make ice cream at home
- Name a star.
- Cook a new recipe once a week for a month.
- Make a photo wall with pictures of your family
- Drive to a place on car alone
- Sing a song at our club
- Sponsor one child for one month
- Code something. Run a small code – on python/c/c++/google script
- Learn to dance something
- vlog a trip
- write in gratitude journal continuously for 30 days