Some people think that advantages of playing sports for fun far outweigh that those of playing sports for competition for students.
However, in my opinion, playing exercise for fun is more important than for excessive competition for two reasons: to keep healthy and to enhance a sense of responsibility.
To begin with, enjoying sports for fun allows students to stay healthy, which contributes to succeed in students’ healthful school life. This is because playing sports for fun tend to reduce their stress level by forgetting about their stressful matters like as they trap in competitive surroundings to achieve a higher grade. In other words, students are easily stressed out when they playing sports for forced obligation like severe competition for record. These stress is very harmful for teenagers. Moreover, stress is one of the main factor of diseases through weakening the immune system. According to a study conducted by Seoul National University of Korea in 2012, a test on mice showed that life span was shortened when they regular underwent series of electric shocks. Interestingly , the researchers found a link between this and human beings who suffered from periodic stress. This implies that high stress levels coming from overheating contests can negatively affect humans, resulting in a shorter life span.
On top of that, engaging sports for pleasure plays a significant role in improving teenager’s sense of responsibility. This is due to the fact that participating in sports for enjoyment require better responsibilities such as arriving on time, manage their schedules wisely, meeting deadlines, observing regulations and throughly completing assignments. According to a study conducted by Seoul National University of Korea in 2010, students who attending sports for delight do better academically than their peers who do attending for duty because they know how to handle multiple tasks and responsibilities and can consequently manage their time well. On the whole, students who do enjoy sports are more mature and better to equipped to succeed than their non-enjoying peers.
To sum up, students benefit more from playing sports for pleasure than for competition in order to succeed in students’ life. This is attributed to the fact that it is capable of developing a sense of responsibility and improving students’ health. In this regard, I strongly agree with the statement that children should play sports for fun rather than for competition for the reasons I mentioned above.