Leisure is essential
Leisure is a way to get out of the reality world. People are seeking to have fun and exciting experiences since everyone is always busy with work. Leisure is not just free time that everyone has, but there is a deeper meaning into it. How one spends their spare time is significant to their own discovering of who they are. Leisure will change a person’s life in a positive way since one will learn on how to deal with problems without any assistance from others. One will spend their free time differently from time to time and this will affect their future. Everyone has his or her own definition of leisure but no matter what leisure is always beneficial toward one’s life. The word” leisure” can mean an assortment of
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Brightbill’s definition of leisure, Gist and Fava in Urban Society 1964 states” Leisure is the time, which an individual has free from work or other duties and which may be utilized for the purposes of relaxation, diversion, social achievement, or personal development.” Personally, I prefer the way Joffre Dumazedier define the meaning of leisure, he wrote, “ Leisure is activity - apart from the obligations of work, family, and society - to which the individual turns at will, for either relaxation, diversion, or broadening his knowledge and his spontaneous social participation, the free exercise of his creative capacity.” There are too many different definition of leisure, and each of us not only has our own definition of it, but also has our own version of what we do …show more content…
Therefore, most of my time was play outside games, such as jumped rope, tag, or hide and seek. When I was growing up, I joined volleyball and had played for 5 years from middle school to high school. During this period, besides studying, I used my time to practice and play volleyball. When I turned 21 years old, I immigrated to America. In here I have school and work at the same time. I work five days per week, and go to school for two days. I have to work a certain amount of hours or more to pay the rent, bills, and education. I do not have time for just thinking why I have to work too hard. My leisure time in the last five years was just work and school. Before start writing this essay, I created a game for myself within one week. I wrote down the list of things that I have done not related to school or work, and I realized a huge amount of my day consisted of being on my phone. Phone usage ranging from texting/ calling/ face timing to social media. After noticed the amount of time that I spend for all of my activities during the past week, I have become aware of the hours that I waste by doing unnecessary activities. I do not want to work five or six days per week for the rest of my life. I understand that doing activities will enhance our thinking but perhaps, also lead to feeling more stressful. Meanwhile, laying the mind to rest helping us reduce work’s
My own personal philosophy of leisure has been shaped by past and present activities I do for leisure and why I do them. To me, leisure is the sense of being free from external stressors that I face in my life such as school or work. The positive outcomes from partaking in leisure are generally overlooked and often underestimated. Leisure affects our emotions, our physical and mental health, and aids in the creation of relationships. In my own personal life, I have done and still participate in leisure as a way to sooth myself or unwind from the stress of school or work. The release of pent up emotions and energy for individuals helps their relationships with others and their overall health as well. When stress is released, an individual is
Marks, L. (2006). The Loss of Leisure in a Culture of Overwork. Spirit of Change Magazine.
If was given the opportunity to be hired as a TR specialist the most suitable work sight that is the best fit for me would be a Long Term Care centre. With clients that are of the age of retirement are not able to take of themselves or suffered a major disability that warrants them to be under the care of a health care professional, the most logical way for TR specialist to provide effective therapy in the field of TR is through the uses of the Leisure Ability Model. This model is based on the concept of internal locus of control, in intrinsic motivation, personal causality, freedom of choice and flow through the use of three service components: treatment, leisure education and recreation participation. When using this model it is imperative
Neulinger’s paradigm is a perspective based theory that separates leisure into two aspects, Perceived freedom, the ability to choose activities and intrinsic motivation, the acknowledgment that an activity is valued by what it gives a person. The leisure theory is then further divided into six stages or states of mind: Pure Leisure, Leisure-work, Leisure Job, Pure Work, Work-Job, and Pure Job. This theory very perspective based, it all depends on how a person views the activities of their life and the amount of enjoyment of they receive from their schedule. There are somethings that I noticed that were really similar between mine and Taylor’s, the student I’m comparing my chart to. I applied Neulinger’s paradigm is applied to my life in multiple ways and in my schedule. I labeled all of my
Thus according to Pieper, leisure is an attitude of the mind and a state of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world. Pieper establishes that the ancient and medieval philosophers understood the great value and importance of leisure in doing work and thus, eventually led to building of great societies. He also points out that religion can be born only in leisure as it is only through leisure that actual worship of God is possible. Leisure has been, and always will be, the basic foundation of any culture or religion.
Many individuals would define leisure as time free from paid work, domestic responsibilities, and just about anything that one would not do as part of their daily routine. Time for leisure and time for work are both two separate spheres. The activities which people choose to do on their spare time benefit their own personal interests as well as their satisfactions. While some people may enjoy one activity, others pay not. Leisure is all about personal interests and what people constitute having a good time is all about. Some may say that the process of working class leisure can be seen to contribute their own subordination as well as the reproduction of capitalist class relations. Self-produced patterns of working class leisure can lead to resistance to such reproduction. This leads to social class relations and inequalities, and the fact that it they can never be completely reproduced in the leisure sphere. This film Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community, gives some examples of the role of leisure within a capitalist society dealing with issues such as class inequalities, and how they are different among various societies.
Stevenson, L. and Haberman D. Ten Theories of Human Nature, Oxford University Press 2009 Pieper J. Leisure The Basis of Culture, Ignatius Press 2009
Guy Montag, a fireman in a technologically oriented society, goes against the government to find true happiness. Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, takes place in a dystopian society in a futuristic America where firemen do not put out fires, but rather use fire to eradicate books. This society lavishes ignorance and looks down upon intelligence. The inappropriate use of leisure time in Montag 's world is the biggest contributor to their deficient society, because people no longer have complex personalities, good socializing, parenting, or critical thinking skills.
...society now classifies leisure as simply ‘free time.’ Time away from work or school, no matter how it is enjoyed, is more broadly defined as leisure today.
Lefebvre, Henri. "Work and Leisure in Everyday Life." Everyday Life Reader. Ed. Ben Highmore. Great Britain: Routledge, 2002. 225-36.
The Leisure and Recreation Industry The leisure and recreation industry is an industry, which has grown and affected the economy in a big way. The industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the UK. The leisure and recreation is defined in many ways for example leisure is referred to the time spent outside employment and other essential activities such as sleeping. Recreation, where as referred to the type of activities undertaken during leisure time? The leisure and recreation industry can be described as a whole range of activities taken in people's free time.
can change the lives of people who interact and take part in leisure activities in the outside world.
time to engage in leisure activities such as entertainment and food as well as socializing. Consumers
Outdoor recreation has been around for more than 80 centuries. Throughout the years, outdoor recreation has evolved in many different aspects. Outdoor recreation began as a tool for survival strategies, such as hunting and fishing. As the years have passed, people went on to hunt and fish as a form of recreation. As a population, we can concur that outdoor recreation has many positive attributes such as personal satisfaction and enjoyment, as well as negative aspects that could amount to the costly engagement in outdoor recreation activity.
2006). To me recreation is having fun with people that makes you laugh and smile. Outdoor recreation, to me, means to remember the joy that nature brought me at five years old with friends and family exploring what Mother Nature provides us and feeling youthful again. Sometimes this would be exploring the countryside, seeing what humanity has not touched, and running around the fields at top speed. Finding a new path to take or just exploring somewhere new by hiking to a swimming hole, or even just walking around somewhere new and taking in all the details so you can recreate them in a drawing to share with people and to look back on years from now. During my experience simulation, I walked along paths in the forest by my house and took in every detail that nature provides. I would look at a fallen tree and remember being at my cottage climbing a falling tree and wanting to hang off it. I saw all the leaves changing colour and remembered cleaning up the grounds of my family farm and then wanting to jump into the colourful pile. My experience gave me memories of when I was younger and it allowed me