What hobby do you think you would have if you didn’t collect toys?

I’d often pondered over this topic on what hobby or pastime would I most likely have today if I didn’t collect toys.  It’s something like an alternate reality of my life.  I guess I would have to trace back to my childhood where I loved to read extensively on books about animals, wildlife conservation, and my top favourite topic - horses! 

Yes in a way, my love for horses got me into collecting My Little Pony, and also LEGO medieval series like the knights and horses sets since my early teens till now.  I might have even considered a career to do with horses, but somehow I didn’t.  So I sort of made up for it by collecting replicas of horses or things related to horses, including their books and toys. 

I also used to collect models of different kinds of wildlife, but all that fizzled out rapidly after I discovered that reading about them is more interesting than collecting their replicas, of which very few in the market are very lifelike enough for my liking.  So in some ways, my toy collecting patterns do reflect my likes and a great deal of my psychic.

If I didn’t collect toys, I’d most probably spend most of my free time pursuing interests related to these major passions in my life.  Perhaps I would be a career or hobby involved with close to the real things.  Maybe I would work in an animal related or wildlife conservation industry, which tend to have rather long hours.  Hence I probably won’t have the time to go shopping or internet surfing for toys.  I’d be too dead tired from all the physical work and intensive research to go anywhere or do anything else. 

What about you?  Let’s say if you collect army toys, do you think you could have done a career or another hobby that is closer to the real thing?  If you have the chance to be closer to the real deal and have to give up your toy hobby for it, will you do it?  Feel free to share your views here!