LEISURE? The word really sounds very pleasant not only for the Office-Goers but also for the Home Makers who too, work round the clock.?Leisure?, more than just equating it to?Free Time?, how would it be if it is equated to an Opportunity given to all of us to Relax as well as Learn?
Jus? Think?.!
Importance of Leisure:
I, being in quite a Critical & Weighty Position at my Office as well as the most busiest person at home too, know the real value of LEISURE. I think Leisure is a God?s Gift to all the people to get out of their monotony? If only Leisure had not been there, just imagine a Man working at the office round-the-clock, eating, sleeping and again going to the office and the such similar cycles of his Life.
What is Leisure?
Many people have wrongly mistaken the real meaning of?Leisure?. Once during a discussion with a few of my friends, I was rather surprised to find that all of them in a chorus informed that their only activity at their leisures is to SLEEP.
Sleep is something very essential to every human being, but is it a Leisure Activity? Sleep gives rest to a few vital organs of the human body in order to make them work more effectively and enthusiastically.
So, just about 7 hours of Sleep daily would be more than sufficient to a normal person, which is already being accomplished by them during nights. But the common & the most detestable practice among our Clan is to force themselves to sleep anytime of the day even if they find themselves to be free of any work.
This is a very wrong practice. This irregular extra hours of sleeping would force the human body to rest while the organs of the body desires to be active. Thus in the long run, if the mind desires to perform an activity at free time, the organs would ne?er cooperate to be active.
Forms of Leisure:
Just expunge or blot out the option of SLEEPING at free time. What could be the commonly performable activities at your leisures which w?ld make your free time an opportunity to refresh yourselves?
? Gardening
? Pet-Care
? Swimming
? Horse Riding
? Cycling
? Going to movies or exhibitions
? An outing to an inexpensive place like beaches
? Reading
? Listening to Music or Singing your favourite songs
The aforesaid ones are very seasonal, as, gardening could be performed in the mornings, whereas swimming is preferable in the afternoons and while outings would turn out to be excellent in the evenings.
In any case, the point is, engaging yourselves in some entertainment / fascinating pass-time, I am sure would not only bring you out of the just routine monotony but also refresh your mental structure.
Leisure could be an Opportunity for Learning:
Yes, it is very true that Leisure could be appropriately utilized in order to make it an opportunity for yourselves to learn more and more new innovative matters. At this juncture, I recall a very close colleague of mine, who was in her late thirties, to be a classic example of this point?.!
The fact is, I have never seen being idle at any point of time. My other colleagues used to make fun of her because, at her lunch time, she would quickly finish her lunch and browse through all the newspapers and magazines & pick up the most valuable and significant current informations & put them up on the Notice Board. She had aimed for her I.A.S., but unfortunately she couldn?t accomplish it in her life due to her bad luck and so many other circumstances. You know what she is? She was my Chief Financial Controller.
When she got married, she was just a graduate. But after her wedding, she had completed almost three PGs and also learnt a lot of extra things, like embroidering & tailoring, Spoken & written Hindi, French etc.
Like my friend, how many of us value our leisures and make it an opening to our gate for success in our lives?
My Tips on Leisures:
? Lot of us get many free-afternoons & just(without any second thoughts) avoid sleeping at those moments. Jus? engage yourselves into some erudition like Swimming(swimming during sunny noons is a very very pleasurable experience), Embroidering, Tailoring etc. There are diverse set of options to make your afternoons an interesting set of hours.
? Long hours of sleeping are just not going to result in anything to you. So, develop regular sleeping habits. This would result in your getting up early and finishing off your morning routines early resulting in quite a considerable hours in the mornings. You could go for a driving class, cookery class or even spend a considerable time for your exercises to keep yourselves trim and enthused.
? Apart from your daily routine jobs, set aside a considerable set of hours for just yourselves at which time you could even take steps to achieve even your long-term desires.
? As for the weekend leisure times, do realise the need for a get-away from your boring humdrum. Choose interesting, entertaining and educative as well as inexpensive tourist places. Of course, taking up short-tours once in about 2 months are not going to cost you too much & your children would become more lissome & energetic to again to get into their studies.
? If you feel that, it would be difficult to organise such tours, choose good theme-parks in your own cities, and plan a day at that place. You could enjoy your day.
? Once in a while, do take your family members to lovely places of interests like Zoos, Museums, Art Galleries, Festivals and Carnivals etc., which would turn out to be entertaining to you and educative to your growing children.
? This is for the home-lovers. There are persons who desire to remain at home and they love it too. Why not try out new recipes in your kitchen at leisures to conquer the hearts of your beloved?
? Eating out once in a way with your family members, would not only get the women out of the boring kitchen works but also would get all the members together resulting in contented moments.
Conclusion:
Dear Guys & G?als, it is once again time that I stick on to MS?s word count regulations. So, if you feel that you are stuck with something, or repeatedly erring, then here is your high-time for you to enjoy a BREAK. Just give yourself a relaxation(?Relaxation? does not only mean sleeping as I said) which could be in any form as aforesaid. Engaging yourselves in your most absorbing & pleasing things would fulfill your valuable moments of Leisure.
I do hope that all of you would have liked my review. Do RRC this review without fail.
Thank you all for your most valuable time.
Mrs. Jayalakshmi Shyam(My pets are just right behind me not allowing me to type any more? hee, hee, hee, hee, ? PETCARE is my LEISURE ACTIVITY, Lot more are there but just banned under this TOPIC!)
