Written by: Niharika Shrestha - 22022, Grade XII
Posted on: 24 March, 2022
Nowadays everyone has a busy schedule and are always caught up in some work. We barely get any free time for ourselves. When we finally get any free time we like to spend it doing the things we love. Hobbies are refreshments for our physical and mental health. Hobbies keep us entertained during our free time. I have different hobbies, recently I have discovered my new hobby which is listening to podcasts.
Listening to podcasts is like therapy. It is fun yet very useful in various ways. It is a great way to complete your assignments without getting bored and distracted. It has different advantages like we get to know about new things, our knowledge on certain topics expands, it can also improve our grammar , vocabulary and many more. There are thousands of podcasts available on the internet that can genuinely motivate us and help us get on track. There are podcasts of your favorite artist talking about his/her life. There are podcasts to know more about the world, life, and many more. It inspires us to become better people. It lets us see things from different perspectives, and tends to change our point of view regarding a certain topic from positive to negative and vice versa. We also get to know about the way of thinking of different people. Our thinking varies from person to person. If everyone had the same thinking then this world would be a better place than ever. Because of the differences in thinking we have to go through different arguments, conflicts, misunderstanding, and many more. Recently, I got a chance to listen to a podcast where they talked about menstruation. There were two people talking in the podcast and there were two different views about this topic. Women are not allowed to go to the kitchen and are restricted on doing many things during menstruation so, the two different perspectives discussed on the podcast where it's good because women should have proper rest during that time because women are always engaged in their household and professional works at the same time so during menstruation they should rest. And it's bad because it's like getting tortured mentally and physically. So, listening to podcasts makes us realize the varieties of thinking people can have on just one simple topic. Listening to podcasts also helps to calm our minds. It has not been very long since I have started listening to podcasts but just in this short span of time, it has expanded my knowledge to a great extent. I was never interested in listening to people talk but now that's what I do when I get any free time.
So, it's a great idea to add listening to podcasts on our hobbies list. This is not only entertaining but also very helpful for us. It helps us to gain knowledge on different topics and enhance the knowledge we already have. It’s a great way to utilize our free time.
