It is debatable whether it is more important for people to be with their family than to be in workplace or not. Some people seem to believe that working more is more beneficial to their life. However, I strongly believe that to spend time with family can provide people with more beneficial things and values than to spend time in workplace for several reasons.
The first reason for my opinion should be started by asking ourselves the question that “what is the ultimate purpose of our lives?” I think the answer of this question, happiness, has been proved by many people including historical figures and literatures. Although the question , how can we get happiness?, can be raised by the counterpart, I strongly believe that we can obtain happiness only by spending our time with our loved ones. Furthermore, the reason why we are working and study hardy also can be answered following the concept. Our working reason is to make my loved ones happy and love one another. My father was workholic when I was in middle school. I don’t have good memory related to my father because he was always in his office. While I could spend my childhood without any financial difficulty, still the relationship between my father and me is not good because we, my father and I, lack understanding each other and memories shared. I regret my father’s choice when I was in childhood. As this experience illustrated, to spend time with family is very important to everyone.
The second reason is that working excessively can cause many problems. In today’s busy and competitive world, modern people have many diseases including many kinds of mental problems. According to the report of Seoul National University’s sociology college, about 75% people now have chronic diseases and most of them are driven from their stresses so many psychiatrists of the university’s hospital recommend that to release your stress causing many modern mental diseases, time with family is absolutely needed. In fact, we can find many examples in media such like magazines and newspapers’ health sections. Many Korean businessmen have mental diseases caused by stresses and spend less time for their family and loved ones than the past. As Theses research reports and recommendation show us, less time with family members causes many problems so we should spare more time for our loved ones.
All things considered, spending time with family is more valuable and necessitated for us living in the competitive world because of our ultimate purpose of working and many problems caused by stressful matters in our world. One can only hope that people will realize the value of their loved ones better and love for one another. |