Leisure And Entertainment
Bread and circuses
After the daily living needs are satisfied people usually want something to entertain themselves. One can choose the way to have a fan both in a passive or an active way. A lot depends on the age, social level, culture, education, income of the person, tastes and possibilities. From century to century the forms of entertainment changed and improved. Now we have much more wide range of hobbies and means of their realization.
We can classify entertainments into several categories: doing things, making things, collecting and learning.We can entertain ourselves at home or outdoors, in a cheep or expensive way, somewhere nearby or on distant shores, by oneself or in company, etc.
Tastes differ
What can we do at home? Simple and almost no cost activities are as follows: reading books, writing poetry and prose, listening to the music, playing music instruments, watching films, drawing, collecting different things, playing different kinds of games from the computer ones to team games as ‘Monopoly’ or chess.
The range of handiwork is also large: knitting, embroidery, sewing, beadwork, origami, scrapbooking and many others. These are favourite hobbies of girls and wemen but not necessarily.
As for easygoing people they also can choose from the wide range of activities such as sport, travelling, going to the cinema, visiting theaters, exhibitions, museums, meeting friends and relatives, attending different clubs. Some people prefer extreme kinds of entertainment, but it could be very dangerous for life and health.
It is great when you have like-minded persons. In such a case you gain even more satisfaction and pleasure.
As for me I am fond of modelling. I go to the Art School where I learn to create together with other students. We learn to work with different materials, study their properties and practice a lot.
To my mind it’s no matter much what kind of hobby the person has, but what really matters is the opportunity to learn from it. That is the most exciting aspect of any hobby.
