LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES
Our lives would be hard without rest and recreation. People have quite different ideas of how to spend their free time. For some of them the only way to relax is watching TV or drinking beer. But other people use their spare time getting maximum benefit from it.
I strongly feel that hobbies make our lives much more interesting. They help usto relax, dream and enjoy life better. There are different kinds of hobbies such as reading, cooking, knitting, collecting, playing a musical instrument, painting, photography, dancing, surfing the Internet, travelling, sports and many others. So you can always find an exciting activity which you will certainly like.
- Personally, I am fond of camping. To my mind, it is a great opportunity to get away from town life. What is more, camping is a cheap way to rest, to improve your health, to train yourself physically and to enjoy nature.
- Personally, I get a lot of enjoyment out of reading books. To my mind, books are our best teachers and friends because they have the power to educate and entertain us. When I'm tired, I like reading detective stories and thrillers. When I want something more serious and instructive, I take an encyclopedia or read some philosophical works. I love reading when I'm travelling, when I'm having meals, when I'm bored or just for relaxation.
- Personally, I am fond of playing computer games. They give me an opportunity to plunge into exciting adventures: to overcome obstacles, to fly an aircraft or to pilot a spacecraft, to solve different puzzles, to look after a virtual pet, to build cities, to play sport games and even to control the lives of people. Computer games are constantly becoming more life-like and complex. New styles and genres appear. That's why I can't resist the temptation to buy new computer games every month.
- Personally I enjoy travelling. Travelling is a great way tospend our spare time. Visiting new places, seeing sights and meeting new people is a very exciting and useful relaxion.
Nevertheless, quite a lot of people have no hobby. Most of them say that they are too busy or too tired to do anything in their free time. But I am sure that such people are lazy and passive and their lives are dull and uneventful.
In general, having a hobby is very important for everybody because it is a kind of self-expression and the way to understand other people and the whole world. A hobby makes you stronger physically and mentally, helps you escape from reality, improve your knowledge, broaden your mind, develop your skills and gain a better understanding of how the world works.
4. We should treasure every hour we can devote to ourselves and think of the ways of having a good time in the best way possible for us.
If you want to broaden and enrich your knowledgeduring your free time you can go to the library or reading-hall where you can find a lot of books of your favourite writers and poets, or to the museums and picture galleries where you see theworks of well-known painters and sculptors of all times. You shouldn’tforget the computer —your greatest helper in searching forknowledge.
If you want to be strong and healthy, go in for sports. There are manysports clubs, swimming-pools and sportsgrounds foreverybody who loves sports. Sport will make you not only healthierand stronger, but kinder, more sociable, cheerful and even wiser. Sport will give you strength and energy and you’ll become a greateradmirer of life with all its problems and wonders.
And don’t forget about hobbies. You should have at least one, it will help youto relax, dream and enjoy life better. There are so many hobbies to choose. So, look around more carefully and you’ll findyourown and the only one (or even more).
And then isn’t it a pleasure to see lots of things made with your own hands, to look through a large collection of old and rare coins, books or stamps, to present your friends with the pictures and drawings created by yourself, to amuse everyone with your green winter garden at home?
Tastes differ and if you have chosen a hobby according to your character and taste you are lucky. If not, don’t waste your time and your life will become more interesting.