One day a few months back I was scrolling through the depths of YouTube when I stumbled across this video about how hobbies and how our society has taught us that they need to all amount to something otherwise its a waste. 

This piece dives into a quiet cultural shift: how social media has made detachment “cool” and passion “cringe.” From cricket trials to classrooms, kids are trading joy for irony and life is becoming a performance instead of something to love. Social media fuels it all, teaching us that caring too much is embarrassing and that the safest way to exist is to act like nothing matters.

One of my closest friends always reminds me that I’m an “English person” and they’re a “maths person.” Whatever that’s supposed to mean. But what they said next is what stuck with me. They - along with someone else - said I’m really good at expressing myself and my ideas, no matter how complex they are (not to toot my own horn). That got me thinking about my hobbies. I play piano and guitar for the community and the fun of it. Others play to express themselves, hence the saying, “Music expresses what words cannot.” But I think words themselves should be able to carry feelings and emotions. That’s what this writing explores.

It truly was any normal day at school when I was thinking about the Lorax. One quote specifically from the Lorax himself: "A tree falls the way it leans, be careful which way you lean". I was thinking about how much nature can tell us about our lives. It was raining that day, and next to me was one of my friends who always talks about how much they like the rain. But they don't like it when the rain is getting their hair wet, or when it becomes cold and miserable, or when things get cancelled. They like the idea of rain, and that idea is explored here as well.