Too much attention is paid on the efficiency of time in these day. Thus some people even have a careful plan on their free time. Though detail plans on free time could enhance efficiency of time, it could mar the purpose of free time. To begin with, it is true that a detail plan on holidays could reduce waste time and fill with valuable experience. This is because, unlike walking in the park, a special trip needs careful preparation. For exapmle if you hope to visit Africa and see wild animals, you should consider a lot of things such as airpline tickets, local transportation, local languages, hotels and vaccination for Malaria. In addtion to you should carefully check where is a good place to see lions. Without detail preparation you could not achieve your aim to see wild animals. On the other hand, careful plan on free time could mar the aim of leisure time. Especially modern city life is a succession of plan. From Monday to Friday our time schedule is planed and filled with meeting, preparing report and so on. Therefore our mind is severely suppressed by the demand of time schedule. Free time, thus, should exactly mean freedom from plan and schdule. For example, some people tend to wake up early on holiday to do something by their plan, but I love to stay in my bedroom until noon. After eating my late meal, I like to visit a small lake near my house by bicycle to have fishing. Without watch, I feel time passing by the movement of the sun or the degree of hunger. It is really good free time for me. In short, a special trip might need a special plan. However, in my opinion free time to be relaxed from the tension of work should differ from the frame of work, schedule. Therefore I love to spend my leisure time without any plan.
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