When it comes to free times,
some people argue that it is ideal for people to spend their leisure time
without specific plans. However, I definitely believe that people should spend
their free time intentionally and systematically with careful plans. This is
not only because people have great opportunities to make the best use of their
free time, but also because planned activities prevent people from experiencing
unpleasant, unexpected events.
First of all, planning activities
carefully is a great idea since people are better able to take advantage of
their free time fully. This is due to the fact that by scheduling what they
would do, people don’t waste their time while having free time and all they
have to do is just to follow things written in the lists. To illustrate this
point, when I was a university student majoring in electrical engineering, with
an upcoming winter vacation, I did not take any action of planning what to do
during the breaks because of my idle and lazy tendency. As a result, I spent
day and night watching TV, playing computer games and just taking a nap every
day and later, I realized that it was a very regretful and useless behavior.
Then, I decided to plan specifically what to do and during the next summer
vacation, without throwing away my precious time, I had a much more meaningful
time when I learned swimming and skiing with my friends. This made me feel
absolutely satisfied and have a sense of fulfilment. Thus, planning
deliberately is strongly helpful for making people spend their time
effectively.
Secondly, it is necessary to have a
planned leisure time because this helps people to avoid unanticipated events. That
is, planning activities hinders people from going through uncomfortable and
unexpected things and this makes people become less stressful while spending
their free time. For instance, when our family took a trip to Japan for a week
last summer, we almost did not enjoy the travel to our fullest. This was
because without enough plan, we had roughly planned the trip only regarding
where we would go in order to just enjoy every that very moment. As a result, since
there was not any vacancy in the decent hotels, it led to a significant problem
that we stayed at the very unclean and unhealthful hotel and spent the whole
week in the bad environment. This clearly proves that people should plan in
detail before having their free time in order to have a nice break time.
To summarize, it is greatly
imperative that people plan activities carefully for their leisure time since
this allows them to exploit the limited time as an invaluable resource wisely
as well as to enjoy their free time more sufficiently in the comfortable and
stable surroundings. Therefore, even though it is more or less hard to schedule
in much detail, people have to know that this will result in a much more happy
and grateful leisure time for themselves.