What did Mr. Lincoln enjoy doing?

[LincolnMan]

And since we're talking about what Lincoln enjoyed-this might sound like a contradictory statement against what we've already said- but perhaps he also enjoyed solitude. It wasn't the depressive kind of solitude but the contemplative kind. he loved to think...to ponder. As a boy he lost himself in books. The famous statue at New Salem depicting him on a horse as a young man doing what? Reading. One gets the sense he hardly knew where he was as he was so engrossed in the book. Then there is the story that as a father he was pulling his boys down the street in Springfield in a wagon while reading. Apparently, one of the boys fall out of the wagon but he didn't notice. He was lost in his book. As a lawyer he traveled from place to place often on horseback...often alone. Although he looked forward to being with his peers and all that that meant-he probably savored the "down-time" alone. in the end, I don't think Lincoln minded being alone overall. Just speculating...