How you spend your leisure time versus how your parentsspend their leisure time.

        Teenagers are actually nocturnal animals. We are more active at night. This fact applies more heavily to college goers actually. A night out in town won’t be complete without a visit to a disco. There we dance our hearts out or maybe drown out sorrows in alcohol. It may seem to be a bad habit but as long as we learn to stay away from bad habits like smoking and taking drugs it can be a way of releasing stress as is the most important element in having leisure time.

        When you take the leisure activities I do and compare it with my parents, anyone can see the difference. My parents would take gardening over a day in a crowded shopping mall. In fact my parents dislike huge crowds and avoid them unless really necessary. They enjoy taking walks in parks and their main interest is in nature. On rainy days when they would rather curl up with a good book or maybe a magazine with the radio in the background playing soothing music. Most of the days the just enjoy each other company. Individually my parents have different hobbies, my father’s lie in his fish pond where he rears koi fish and various carp. He claims that they create a certain ying-yang balance in our house. Meanwhile my mom’s hobby lay more in her vegetable garden. She grows various types of chilies, fruit trees and vegetables.

        Even though I and my parents have different leisure activities, we do share one thing in common; the love for books. There are definitely days where we spend out leisure time with a good book. No matter how you spend your leisure time, the main point is that you are able to relax and reduce stress while enjoying your favorite activity before going back into the real world again.