text: Getting involved and meeting new people you can also find people who have the same hobbies as you. Finding people with the same hobbies as you can be fun,and lets say you both like painting then yall could hang out and paint together. Who knows you might have other things in common with them. Then boom you just found you a new friend who has the same hobbies as you. If you never participated then you would've never met this person or would've know that they liked painting.