What are your thoughts and feeling while doing the activity
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Two things: writing and travelling.
1.Writing - Being a normal human being i tend to judge people on daily basis but the problem with judging people is its frowned upon and even i hate it when people judge me. But In writing, you get to judge people without any hindrance and moreover if it's precise, people tend to compliment you. Its all in observing not just their physical attributes but also their emotional limitations. You can't do that in real life. For example if your friend comes and tells you that he had broke up with his fifth girlfriend and that no girls acknowledge his care for them, you can't point out to him that it's because he's clingy as a kid and an emotional mess bordering on bipolar. BUT in writing about that guy i can do that and much more. I can call him a sadistic narcissistic maniac who only cares about himself not about those girls' emotions and he would have no idea i called him that even if he reads it. Hell, he might even like it. That kinda freedom is what I want and makes me feel like myself.
2.Travelling- Just like i told before I like to judge people and people includes me too(i hope). You can't judge yourself sitting on your couch thinking 'i might be good in photography if the chance arises' and letting your camera settle dust over in your cabinet. No. IT JUST WONT DO. If I think I am good at something i have to see that for myself. And to do that i need to get away from people i know. Ironically those who like you may also be your hurdle. In travelling i get to judge myself and if think I am good at something i can try it out and see for it myself. I have the freedom to lose, get muddy and get right back so that I can give it another go. Thats why I like to travel when I can freely judge myself and measure myself in my own yardscale.
In this new normal situation, so hard for me to answer all the activities that given but you can do it by motivating your self etc.