Everyone likes to pursue certain activities in their leisure time. These provide diversion from daily activities like studies, household chores, routine office work, tensions and problems. These activities are healthy and contribute to our mental and physical wellbeing. They also provide healthy entertainment and refreshment. All leisure activities our batteries and provide fresh impetus to do out daily activities.
Activities, which provide pure entertainment, are watching films, television serials, going for outings and picnics with friends and family members. Man is a social animal and he likes to indulge in social activities. It gives him emotional and psychological strength.
It too provides an opportunity to socialize, and are a good form of exercise. There are variety of outdoor sports like cricket, football, swimming and horse riding which are very energetic. It is good for the physical growth of the children. It strengthens the muscles of the body and improves the blood circulation.
Indoor activities like chess, carom, reading listening to music and so on are preferred by those who are reserved or have less time at their disposal.
Leisure activities can be both educative as well as non-educative. People who give a great deal of importance to self-development prefer to make productive use of their time. They generally indulge in activities that are educative rather then those which give pure entertainment.
Activities like reading, drawing, cooking, handicrafts, learning to play musical instruments are watching educational programmes are educative and entertaining.
What types of activities the children pursue depends upon the hiking and inclination of each individual. But in my opinion one should also pursue activities that are educative too. It greatly contributes to ones learning and experience. But at the same time all educative activities should also have some element of entertainment.
However some may find no element of entertainment in certain educative activities.
Should sculptors of leaders be at road cross?
People like to keep statues of their national leaders or prominent persons at road- crossings, public buildings or parks to show their respect and admiration for them. This is so in all the countries.
Such statues also add aesthetic beauty to the public places and the citizens feel proud of their leaders. These statues are a constant reminder of the great service they rendered to the society. They are a continuous source of inspiration to the future generations even after they are dead. They remain alive in the memory of the people forever.
Road crossings are the best places where these statues can be put up. While traveling to their places of work or studies the people see them daily and pay tribute to them. They can try to imbibe new values and principles.
However there are certain disadvantages of keeping these statues at road crossings. They create obstacles in the middle of the road. They make the road crossings narrow and people are often mentally preoccupied with their work or problems. Because they see the statues daily they become indifferent and the statues fail to inspire them.
There is some expenditure annually to maintain them. Birds spoil the statues with their droppings. Sometimes the placement of the statues of eminent persons creates controversies. Some people may feel that road crossings are not really the right places to keep statues of such great eminence and importance to the world.
The memory of the national leaders can be kept alive through films, television serials, articles, books, and so on. However the putting up of statues at road crossings is a constant source of visual stimuli.
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