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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 4022457, member: 57463&quot;]Just for myself, I feel that nothing kills the hobby for an individual, but, rather, each person must find their own avenues of enjoyment. If you want to jump in and be part of a friendly club of well-wishers, then that is your hobby: Welcome Wagon, Toastmasters, Lions Club, social groups that specialize in being groups. Personal enjoyment must begin within you yourself. On that, I look to Ayn Rand&#039;s essay on stamp collecting from the Minkus Review. (Easy enough to find online. Try Kenmore Stamp here: <a href="https://www.kenmorestamp.com/why-i-like-stamp-collecting-by-ayn-rand" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kenmorestamp.com/why-i-like-stamp-collecting-by-ayn-rand" rel="nofollow">https://www.kenmorestamp.com/why-i-like-stamp-collecting-by-ayn-rand</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, the journey is the reward. I have one Whitman Folder: Mercury Dimes without the 1916-D. It was a project, searching through buckets of dimes at a local coin store.&nbsp; I bought some of the harder ones (22-D, etc.), but when it came to thr 1916-D, I realized that I could have one anytime: all it takes is money. And I could not afford a collectible grade, so I dropped it.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, that project led me to the paradigms for those &quot;classic&quot; coins: the actual Greek and Roman coins themselves. That proved a more durable pursuit.&nbsp; However, it was highly personalized. I was inspired by Carl Sagan&#039;s <i>Cosmos</i> episode &quot;Backbone of the Night&quot; to pursue archaic and ancient Greek coins from the towns and lifetimes of philosophers. I had about 50 from Thales to Hypatia. And I was satisfied. I got rid of them, though I kept the Miletos electrum and Athenian Owl. I discovered that my passion was not so much for the objects as the research and writing.&nbsp; And I still do a lot of that.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, just sayin&#039;... Rand&#039;s theory is that hobbies bring self-perception. The rewards are internal.</p><p><br /></p><p>But as a quick reply to the posts above, yes, other people can be wet blankets who put out the fires of interest and passion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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