Leisure activities

 Many people work long hours, leaving very little time for leisure activities.

Does this situation have more advantages or more disadvantages?

Work culture has evolved tremendously since the advent of the digital age. During period of industrial revolution, strict working hours were followed. This has changed as the underlying infrastructure for work is still not fully developed, which in turn requires many people to slog for long hours in the digitally equipped world.

Many firmly confirm that work done in this period is for the betterment of mankind, it automates the human life to a greater extent. On one hand this is true in making our lives easier for the future, on the other hand personal development stops in the rat race. Jobs like software development require long hours of focus, which is quite difficult to achieve amongst the social media distractions. To illustrate, if a mobile application developer creates a great concept, he or she has to work without looking at clock. At times this takes more than hundreds of hours of continuous coding. In such situations, time for hobby would mean more pain, as the brain is already tired. It then becomes a drowning attempt to conserve and practice ones pass time acts.

While it is true that mind draining jobs provide less of "me time", on the contrary it is believed that it is essential to have certain duration where an individual could self analyze. It is often understood that leisure time activities are beneficial to recharge ones batteries and think about the purpose of life.  One should definitely give some time for their hobbies, for example, if one loves to play flute as a hobby their music helps in healing hypertension, as well as many other health problems caused due to the work stress. I think hobbies serve the purpose to pause on ones conquest of life only to make a stronger comeback.

To conclude there are enormous pros of sticking to some individualistic leisure acts as it takes pressure off and soothes us only to get more efficient in life. In my opinion one should surely have some hobbies as they serve the same purpose as meditation.