Essay My Hobby

My Hobby

My hobby is stamp collection. I collect new as well as old stamps from different countries. It was some years back that one of my uncles presented me an album of stamps on my birth day. Since that time I have added three more, so that I have a bigger collection than any of my friends.
People think that it is an expensive hobby but I have never bought a single stamp from a shop. So my collection has really cost me nothing. My father work in a big office. Sometimes he brings me home stamps from many countries of the world. Stamp collection is a royal hobby. I have pen friend all over the world with whom I exchange stamps. I have won their sympathy and affection. They ask me curious questions about my country. I have come to know about the manners and customs of other peoples of world through correspondence.
Each stamp has a story to tell me for countries and strange people. I see picture of men and women, birds and animals that I have never seen. King and presidents pass before my eyes, and I can follow the history of nation. I can see Hitler’s Germany spreading over Europe and then suddenly breaking into pieces. Pakistan is born before my eyes; countries rise and countries fall and the whole time I remain comfortably in my arm chair at home. In short, stamp collection is a joy for me. It is an instructive as well as interesting activity.

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