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0 pointswiether5mo ago0 comments

I think the difference is in the intent.

If someone is going to restaurants serving variations of a dish, or if they travel to cemeteries where their ancestors are buried, that's qualify as hobbies.

Whereas, if they go to all the trending restaurants or countries/cities on social networks, that's not hobbies.

In the first case, they make active decisions on what they do; in the second case, they are just following the decisions made by others.

To be clear, both are fines, as long as they feel happy with how they spend their free time and money.

But I know with who I'd like to spend some time, listening them explaining what they did in the last months.

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steveBK1235mo ago

Yes, in NYC, theres a very "culture vulture / hype beast" mentality of chasing whatever hot reservation is trendy so you can yap about it to the same circle of friends doing the same thing.

I don't need to know how expensive the tasting menu was or how hard it was to get a reservation because in the words of Logan Roy - "congrats on saying the biggest number".

Tell me about something you did, made, learned, gave back, etc.

Vacations are nice, I take them, but 90% of the time hearing people describe their most recent banal trend following travel is boring. I swear every rich person I know seems to take the same 5-10 trips as each over. I would probably find a discussion of a book you read while on vacation more engaging.

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