Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Nov. 2008
It is known as leisure, although many also call it free time, to all those activities that, with the freedom of choice and opportunities that particular cases entail, are not linked to any type of formal work and are carried out by people, in precisely the free time that remains after having fulfilled their job.
Although and generally, these, for the most part, are more related to sports physical activities, such as football, tennis, basketball, gymnastics, also carrying out cultural activities such as going to the movie theater, read one book, to see one play, meeting with a group of friends or simply lying in bed to rest and watch TV, can also be considered options to be deployed during our leisure time.
Likewise, leisure has certain temporary moments to "show its vice", since for example this usually develops during times when people do not have to work or study. That is why on weekends and weekdays, at different times after six in the afternoon, they are generally chosen to carry out these activities that I mentioned earlier. But of course, this taking into account the situations of those who only work in what would be considered a normal routine, such as Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
It is interesting to remember that many people have chosen to leave the hour dedicated to lunch in their own rhythm. routine work, replacing it with a frugal intake and enjoying leisure during that brief time of midday weekly. Indeed, especially for those working in busy urban areas, a few minutes can become a source of walks, short tours, admiration of exhibitions or other actions in which leisure is the protagonist undisputed.
Leisure was born as a result of the human being's need to be able to spread out and display other types of concerns in those moments in which he is not workingThat is to say, plain and simple, the end of leisure is something like resting from work.
It is more than studied and proven that man needs a time of relaxation and culture of their personal issues in order to get rid of the problems that commonly result from the exercise of a profession or work. Without going any further, today, we are witnesses of the tremendous consequences that a person can cause not to rest or have time for him or her; stress is the best reflection of the lack of this leisure time that a human being also needs to live. For the more scientific scholars, it is noted that most of the higher mammals enjoy of leisure moments, in which they are usually limited to rest or, in the case of gregarious animals, to "learning"through play. This would show that leisure is a resource playful from which different animals manage to extract benefits. The so-called "creative leisure" would thus have its origin in nature itself. However, it is impossible not to recognize that human beings, in their complexity social, they have incorporated non-playful components to leisure; thus, art would be a direct consequence of that free time, both in terms of the creation of the works and the possibility of enjoying the contents designed by other people. Therefore, if we ask ourselves if leisure is an exclusive quality of human beings, we must, without a doubt, answer for the negative; However, if we consider whether people's leisure differs from that of other species, clearly our The answer will be that our leisure is exclusive, our own and different, since it makes our condition of beings humans.
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