Descriptive Essay On Leisure

Leisure has many different meanings depends on the context. It could be defined as a right and as a privilege when we are debating leisure’s fairness. As a right, leisure is more humane standing as it is the essential part of our daily life. It should be distributed equitably and everyone has the same right to live a good life, gain freedom and pursuing happiness. When it is viewed as a privilege, it is something to be earned. Therefore, leisure is distributed unequally. It is more like a reward or prize only for people who are qualified for, rich, loyalty and so on.

Aristotle posits Eudaimonia, human flourishing and happiness, as the ‘chief good’ of humanity achieved through ‘reflective activity’ over a lifetime (Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, 2002). From my perspective, the reflective activity to which he alludes is the pursuit of leisure.

Ann Landers once said, “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.” We tend to assume that the things we do in life aren’t worth it but really at the end it opens up a whole lot of opportunities for us to show how hard we actually work in order to achieve our goals. As I got older I ran across many things in life such as, picking social science as my major, my grandmother being the one person who influence me the most, and loyal, considerate, optimistic being the types of characteristic traits that go along with my major.

According to Quindlen, “there is a culture of adult distrust” that sees leisure time as unproductive for children (83). However, children at this stage of life need flexibility from their parents. Children should be raised in an environment that encourages good habits, but at the same time, time for leisure. Quindlen says, “I don’t believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it” (82). Besides, People need leisure time to discover bright ideas.

Gordon Marino effectively argues the importance of individuals doing what they need to do and not just what they love as a career. He builds his argument by including anecdotes, citing experts, and appealing to the audience’s emotions. To begin with, in his article, Dr. Marino builds his argument with anecdotal evidence to help readers see the importance of choosing to do more than what they love. The personal stories strengthen his argument and the use of pathos because he gives an example of his life saying, “My father didn’t do what he loved. He labored at a job he detested so that he could send his children to college” (page 2, para.2).

Why you will fail to have a great career Imagine being a professor at a well-established university who spends most of your teaching career to help and coach college students to find and develop the career of their dreams. Imagine hearing from most of the students you have helped coach, give up on their pursuit to find the career they love. You hear the same set of excuses from students who’ve decided that it’s not worth their time to look for their passion and build their ideal career around it. Imagine doing this for over 30 years.

Furthermore, during the winter months, basketball was the only sport I had access too because there were indoor courts available. These environmental factors inclined me to choose basketball as my main recreation in terms of competitive sport and now it is one of my favorite sports. It was hard for me to engage in my previous recreational activities because nobody enjoyed playing soccer or cricket. This constrained my choices in terms of what kind of recreational activities I wanted to do. Another factor that separated me from playing sports such as soccer and cricket were economic factors. During the winter season, the only way I could play these sports was if I joined the indoor leagues but these leagues were quite expensive. Coming from a middle class family, these extra expenses were hard to manage and sustain. Soon it became too much and so I had to quit and find other recreational activities to do in my leisure. Due to these various sociocultural factors, my involvement in certain sports was severely hampered while other sports such as basketball were immensely facilitated.

Leisure as a concept is not easy to define, and is subject to differing opinions and class-structure. Where a working-class person may define leisure as a way to display wealth, conversely, the upper class may simply view leisure as a means of having free time away from the demands of work or duties. In Ancient times, leisure was possible, due to the work of slaves and poorer citizens (Price, 2008 p 10). Whilst leisure has always been associated as a pursuit for the wealthy, in the19th century with the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and the development of the railway, this began to change. The working classes had more disposable income, and the opportunity to travel cheaply and experience ‘freedom from work’ (Price, 2008 p 7).

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”; the question that everyone has been asked at some young stage in their life, is one that we feel we need to live up to. In today’s society we are taught that obtaining, and becoming successful in a career is one of the most important things that a person can do with their life. Starting at a young age, every generation has been told that hard work is needed in order to become successful. While this may be true, the process might prevent someone from living their life the way that they have always wanted to because they are too worried about what they believe is their number one priority: work. People will spend their whole life working in extremities just to gain a sense of pride, dignity, and a little

Everyone in society partakes in leisure. Leisure may be in the form of watching TV, gardening, fishing or playing a sport. The reasoning behind leisure participation also varies, individuals may partake in leisure for health benefits, because of their friends are or simply, because they enjoy the activity. It is important for leisure practitioners too not only understand the health benefits leisure provides an individual, but to also understand what motivates individuals to partake in leisure and what types of barriers and constraints they may have to overcome for successful leisure participation to occur. For the purpose of this essay the concepts extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, self-efficacy and learned helplessness will be explored.

For example, people who enjoy the Arts then become an artist like Pablo Picasso, Leonardo DaVinci, Claude Monte, Claude Mante, and Jan Van Eyck these artists have created some of the world most beautiful, extraordinary, and vibrant paintings that the world have or know to date. This example of the artists show that even leisure time can achieve success, even if the topics or ideas seem to be under minded by others saying it’s a waste of time and it should be spent on something more useful for society rather than relaxation. As for me, another individual whose philosophy is based on the foundation of education and work, I do believe that leisure can make someone successful but it all depends on the leisurely things he/she does in that time duration. Furthermore, the way to success can be showed in myriad of opportunities but one of the most common ways to become successful is the foundation of education

Attention/need step: How hard is it to make a life changing decisions? Those decisions that affects your education, the career paths you choose and whether or not you become successful. Founder of Quintessential Careers and present CEO of EmpoweringSites.com, Doctor Randall S Hansen stated in a recent article, that majority of college students struggle to select a major and stick with it (Hanson, 2016). If you believe this is the hardest decision there is to make about your future, how about the decision you have to make about your career? Is there anyone out there in the audience that can stand and confidently say that they are sure that the career they have chosen will yield precisely what they anticipate?

Josef Pieper, a catholic philosopher, considers work and leisure as two aspects of human living that are both of equal importance for an individual’s living. He refers to work as ‘ratio’ and appreciates the essence of work in realizing human ideas and concepts. Leisure is termed as ‘intellectus’ and it is time taken by an individual to contemplate and nourish his spiritual being. Work is different from leisure in various ways. Firstly, work is meant to attain measurable objectives, that is, its results are materialistic whereas leisure is used to generate ideas and concepts that are abstract in nature.

The only sound that filled my ears was my keyboard clicking as my fingers raced across it. I had been procrastinating from finishing this assignment all evening, but I knew I needed to get it done. The burning sunset was shining through the windows as I was finishing up. It was a peaceful silence, until I heard the soft whispers of my parents that ignited my sense of curiosity. I was concentrating hard; doing my best trying to make out the hushed words that were being spoken.

Without having or developing good time management skills, one may find it easier to stress out or find it easy to not make time for leisure. The results for a study conducted on 249 college students showed that the combination of anxiety reduction and effective time management affiliated with participating in leisure activities can be an effective technique for reducing academic stress (Misra & McKean, 2000, 41). The same study also states that, “campus recreation practitioners may plan leisure activities and social recreational pursuits that increase the educational benefit from leisure pursuits to help students handle their academic stress,” (Misra & McKean, 2000, 49). So therefore, there is time for leisure as long as we learn how to manage our time. Once we find time to participate in those activities we desired for so long, it will help cope with nerve-racking situations that surround our lives. Besides keeping us from stressing, leisure also keeps us entertained and it helps stirs us away from being bored.