March 16th, 2008Recharging Batteries
Imagine it is Saturday morning in term time. You have worked hard during the week and you’re glad it’s the weekend. There’s some work to do and a few household jobs to help with. But if you’re lucky, there will be plenty of time for you to spend on the things you like doing, to relax and enjoy yourself. How will you occupy your leisure time? Will you spend hours over the weekend outside in the garden or the park or the street, chasing around with friends or playing football? Perhaps you will sit inside all day watching television or maybe you will pick up a book and be transported into an imaginary world. Or will you torture the neighbours as you practise for your future role as a world famous pop singer?
Whatever you do, it will be a break time from work, a leisure activity, a form of recreation. Look closely at the word ” recreation ” and you will see that it literally means re-creation, creating ourselves again. This gives us a clue as to how important it is. Through recreation we renew and refresh ourselves, and this is something that we all need, whether we are adults or children. If all we do in our waking hours is work, we go on using our minds and bodies in the same way, without giving them a break. We become overtired, and probably rather boring too! As the old saying goes, ” All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. ” We need different kinds of recreation, too activities that refresh our bodies and ones that refresh our minds.
