Do you enjoy leisure time intelligently?
‘To be able to fill the leisure time intelligently is the last product of civilization’, says Arnold Toynbee. For most people in our time, the term leisure time is often synonymous with ‘ non-working time’. However, there is an important distinction between the two. Leisure time should be defined as those few precious hours each day when you are free to do whatever you want to do. The first step towards enjoying leisure time is to recognize that it exists, and it does exist for the majority of people today. Whether you are conscious of it or not, you decide each day if you are going to use this precious time or waste it. Sadly, most people in today’s hectic world have become automatons. They routinely go to work each morning, put in eight hours of work before returning home, watch TV, and then go to bed. This routine repeats day after day! These folks do not live 365 different days in a year; they live the same day 365 times! Then, there are those com...