Item

My new hobby

Title (Dublin Core)

My new hobby

Description (Dublin Core)

During the summer of 2020, not a lot was going on in my life. I had just recently finished my undergraduate degree and had little to do on a daily basis, there were no jobs, no friends, not even family. Gradually, I got sick of just playing video games day in and out; however I wasn’t getting sick of the music of these games, many of which used the banjo. Some of these songs seemed pretty simple, and with my previous experience rudimentary experience with the guitar I figured I’d be able to some of these tunes. I started picking up my dad’s banjo, which is in the photo I provided on a daily basis; using YouTube tutorials I started to pick up the basics. In all honesty it was pretty easy to pick up, and just a relaxing experience, I even grew to like the feeling of developing callouses on my fingers? That’s a little weird but it felt like they were physical reminders of how much work I was putting into learning this new instrument. Recently I’ve kind of stopped playing, but I still love just plucking at it every now and then. My friends online similarly liked hearing me play every now and then, so in a sense it was a great coping mechanism to boredom and loneliness. However, I’ve really stopped even plucking at it, I don’t feel a drive to do much anymore; so I just kind of stare at it now every now and again, which is incredibly weird.
This item maters to me as it helped me through the initial stages of the pandemic, and helped me stay mentally active during quarantine. However, as the pandemic has dragged on I kind of have lost the desire to play it, or do much of anything else really. I’d like to add this item to the collection of performing arts as it is a musical instrument, and I would perform for my friends on Discord every now and then (but then again I’m not a professional artist or performer so I don’t think it’d be appropriate for me to be in that collection) Mental health on the other hand is a way more accurate collection for this item, as it really helped me stay mentally active during the pandemic.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 26, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Padraic Cohen

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Padraic Cohen

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Emotion
English Social Distance

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

happy
music
banjo
quarantine
hobby
gaming
guitar
Cochrane
Alberta
Canada

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

music
hobby
fun
motivation
learning
boredom

Collection (Dublin Core)

Mental Health

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

02/06/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

02/18/2021
03/03/2021
08/02/2022
09/12/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/26/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on February 6, 2021 by Padraic Cohen using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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