João Nadais nº 20 11ºA2

Work and leisure

Work and leisure… What an undefined theme! It’s not really easy to talk about such a theme like that. But even so i’ll try.

Well… people say that we have eight hours to sleep, eight hours to work and eight for leisure. But, from my point of view, this is just theory. Look at your school timetable. You never spend less than eight hours just in the work you have at school.But if you think it is all, wait up! It’n not over! Or are you forgetting the times when you have homework, or  even when you have tests? In these cases you get almost all of the weekdays spent without leisure, isn’t it so? The only days that you can say you can have that theorical balance well-used is at the week-ends, because you don’t have the school, so you have the power to do what is better to you(even if it is not what pleases you more. You sometimes need to do some sacrifices to be well succeeded, you know).

Secondly there is another thing that we can talk concerning this theme (after all, it was not so undefined as it seemed!). You have to balance well work and leisure. I’ve heard some people say that now they work so much that they say that when they were young they were much happier than what they are now. And one of them is me. But sometimes it is so hard to conciliate these two things that we don’t take time for us. But this should be avoided because, as people say, “all work and no play makes jack a dull boy” . This means that if we work too much and don’t take time to have fun, no one will be able to stand us. 

So finally I would say that although that eight hour thing is just theory, we should try to make it not get very far from reality.