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Due to competitive society, people have severe amount of
daily stress. Nowadays, people are more interested in how they can relax and
relieve their stress in short amount of time. Some people think that spending
time alone is not the ideal way to relax and relieve their stress, while others
do not. Both sides may have their own reasons. From my perspective, people can
get rid of their stress and relax well when they spend their time alone since
they can enjoy their moment more quietly and freely.
To begin with, people can have their own time in a quiet
environment when they are alone. People can hardly get relaxed when there are
many people around, since it is inevitable to get noisy and distracted. To be
specific, Harvard Research Center analyzed data from two groups of adults who
work in a company. One group consisted of those who spent two hours alone, and
the other group was made up of those who spent two hours with their friends.
The researchers found that when they went back to work, the former group
finished their duty faster than the latter one. In particular, the first group
showed a longer attention span and a stronger passion in their task, while the
second group easily got distracted. This implies that spending their spare time
alone was a great help on their relaxation and recharging their batteries.
Furthermore, people can do anything freely if they spend
their time alone. It is inevitable to do activities that do not want to do when
they are with other people. All of these considerations can lead to an additional
stress. Let me bring up my own experience. When I was a student, I had twenty minutes
of rest after studying for two hours. I usually spent my spare time sleeping or
relaxing by myself. One day, while I was reading a book, my friend came over to
me and started talking, even though I wanted to keep reading. After that, I
realized that I couldn't relieve my stress at all, since I didn't spend my time
reading the book. This experience taught me that it is important to spend time
alone doing what I want in order to relax.
In conclusion, people can relax more alone since they can
spend their time with less distraction and intervenes. In this regard, I
strongly believe that the advantages of spending time alone far outweigh its
disadvantages.
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