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Some people might say that it is better for adolescents(age 14-18) to take part in various activities. However, in my opinion, they can get more advantages from a variety of activities for the following reasons: first of all, they can many valuable lessons which are not the same something they can learn from books. Secondly, they can broaden their human relationship. To begin with, diverse activities would be helpful for the adolescents in that they can learn many various lessons which are useful to become a mature adult. This is because each activity has different characteristics and pros and cons. In contrast, if they participated in only one activity, they would get a certain lesson which is relevant with the activity. In this regard, I will take an example of myself. When I was a high school student, my parents encouraged me to engage in a diverse assortments of activities such as playing basket ball, traveling other cities nearby my town, watching movies, or going to music concerts every weekend. When I took part in these activities, I was able to learn different lessons from each of them. To be specific, I learned the importance of cooperation from basket ball with my cousins, and also realized how to become more independent from traveling other cities alone. With these experiences, I was able to become not only an independent adult but also social and cooperative person after graduating from the high school. If I had engaged in only a certain activity such as watching movies, I would have not become such an balanced adult. On top of that, various activities would give more chances to expand the adolescents’ human network. Broaden human relationship is so important for them because they can meet a lot of friends. To be specific, many peers would be helpful for them because they would be able to lend hands when in agony, and to sympathize with each other’s concerns better than other adults. Moreover they would be especially valuable for the adolescents since they would sympathize with each other’s concerns. I know this from my personal experience. When I was 16 years old, I made some new friends by participating in a soccer club. I could relied on them whenever I had concerns because we often had similar agonies such as low grades in school or careers of the future. We consoled each other and their empathy was always big help for me. To sum up, adolescents can get many valuable lessons which would be helpful to become more mature adults, and also they can broaden their human relationship and make new friends from various activities. In this regard, I personally believe that it is better for them to take part in a variety of activities rather than to engage in only one activity. |