Beneficial Leisure Time

Trian Wahyu Hamidatur R

Dewi Khoiru Umma M

Many people say that ‘’Time is Like a Sword’’. When you use your time wisely, you will be safe from the acuity of the sword. It means that by using time wisely, you will be discipline in anything you do.  On the contrary, if you do not use your time effectively, you will be minced by the sword, which means you will suffer lose in your future. In essentials, it is important for you to use the time effectively, especially your leisure time. There are some enjoyable activities that can be done to spend your leisure time effectively.

First thing that you have to do is recognizing yourselves. You have to consider what actually your hobbies and interests are. If you still do not know about what your hobby or interest is‚ it can be found by analyzing. What does analyzing mean? In this case‚ analyzing can be meant to find out what activity that spends tremendous of time during your leisure time. If you use most of your leisure time to sleep for example‚ it cannot be denied that one of your hobbies is sleeping.  You can also make a list of some activities that you usually did to make your free time delightful and beneficial. It seems to be an interesting way in making such list because you can know if actually you have many pleasant things to do. After listing your hobbies and interests, you can choose some of those activities you like best. By doing this thing you will be able to manage what you are going to do to colorize your free time.

The next activity after selecting the best hobbies and interests is actualizing them in your leisure time. Implementing hobbies and interests is a great way to develop your skills and interact with other people. Besides using hobby or interest as the activity to go through for your leisure time‚ having hobby or interest can also enrich your experience and increase the number of your friends. For instance‚ if one of your hobbies is mount climbing‚ you can enrich your experience by hiking some different mountains that will make you have different impressions and experiences. In addition to having more experiences‚ you can also join some mount climb club in order to make a friend so that you can get more new friends. You can even produce income through your hobbies. If you have a hobby of making a handmade for example‚ you can make money by distributing the products. Those are some of the benefits you can get by actualizing your hobbies or interests.

Moreover‚ to support your hobbies and interests‚ you can take courses based on the hobbies or interests you have. Your hobby can give more benefits when it is well trained.  That is why taking course is needed‚ because it will improve and develop your skills. As the illustration‚ if you have a hobby in playing guitar you can take a course which sharpens your skill in playing guitar. When your skill has already been good enough you can elaborate your experience may be with joining a group band or others. This kind of activities is one of the benefits of having hobbies has already stated above‚ that is earning money. By training your skills‚ it will be more useful rather than if you have a skill just for pleasure.

Recognizing and actualizing hobbies is one of the activities that can be done in purpose to have an effective leisure time. Further having an effective leisure time could make our life more useful. Because you also often hear the saying “Time is Money”.