The controversial American economist and social critic argues that is a study connected to the aspects of human culture. It is the theory of evolution to analyze the modern industrial system. While industry itself demanded diligence, efficiency, and cooperation businessman in opposition to engineers and industrialist were only interested in making money and displaying their wealth in what is coined consumption. Veblen’s social theory differs from the regular definition of leisure in so many ways. The main definition of leisure would be pleasure to one’s liking. Veblen’s thought of leisure seems to have nothing to do with the thought of relaxation. I personally don’t agree with Veblen’s thought of leisure, because I feel like leisure has everything to do with personal time, and relaxation, I don’t know any other definition for it.
I don’t really have any leisure time with my basketball schedule, but when I do I love to sleep. Another thing I like to do in my free time is watch horror movies or build up some type of skill. I really enjoy writing sometimes. I’m not a people person so I just write my feelings and emotions out on paper. It helps a lot if your stressed about something, and you have no one there to speak to about it, your pen and pad will always be there! I like teaching myself how to cook from recipe books. Cooking is not my thing, but I’m learning and getting better at it. I also like to draw and come up with different types of strategies I could use to build something extravagant. I can rap a little bit, and sometimes I sit and rap. I come up with different types of rhymes to explain my life story, and what I go through at that moment. In my leisure time I go through self-film from my previous game, and see what I did wrong, I study my mistakes, and the great things I did. I study the next matchups players, I go over their personnel, watch film on their game, and look at their strengths and weaknesses, and how I could use that as my advantage to score. My leisure time most likely doesn’t consist of nothing else.
I interviewed Gloria Hedge who is my grandmother. She stated that leisure is when someone is not working or occupied with anything basically free time. She feels as if we can gain a sense of freedom, control, creativity, and time to achieve things you have never achieved. She also feels that leisure time gives us the chance to develop our skills, relationships with peers, and self-love. Enjoying new adventures, experiences, and a good way to stay healthy and fit. She also felt that leisure time can be done anywhere, and with people you enjoy being around and at the end of the day they leaving you feeling good, and better about yourself. In her leisure time she used to always go to the tennis courts and play tennis by herself. She would just use the wall as her passer, and that lead her to be the first African American woman to go to state and win a national championship in the state of Texas. She also would learn how to cook from her mother, and recipe books. I can say them recipe books came in handy! She is the best cook I know so far. She would make the most of her leisure time because she saw it as time she could not regain again. She made the most of her time because she was only limited to most of it.
The way leisure is used today versus back then is similar. Most teens I know watch tv in their leisure time. That are what senior citizens did in their leisure time also. It’s similar how the older generations, and the newer generations look on dimensions, such as eating, socializing, shopping etc. In leisure time people in the past generation, and the present generation would go window shopping checking out new deals in their leisure time. Exercising is also something seniors and teens of this generation take part of in their leisure time. Older people don’t want to lose their shape as time moves on, and younger people in this generation want to stay fit. People in the older generation were mostly volunteering in their communities in their spare time, people in this generation also do that, but you would rarely find a teenager volunteering anywhere unless its mandatory, or they are obligated to do it. reading a book, unlike a teenager most of them don’t read for their pleasure. If they are not reading their probably either sleep, gaming, or playing sports. I feel like people in this generation live around social media. In the past social media didn’t really have an affect on the world until now, and that’s with adults and teens. Social media could be the #1 activity the population uses in this generation.
I believe North America’s quality of life would be better with more time. Some people work the longest hours in the world, and many of them struggle with trying to achieve a healthy balance between work and life. Having more leisure time would give you a good perspective on life. It allows you to realize that there are more important parts of life that you shouldn’t let pass you by! You also show others that their a priority in your life. If you have been blowing people off because of your schedule, once you take time out to have more leisure time and spend it with your family and friends, their opinion of you will change. If you do happen to have a job taking time off would prepare you for a more productive day at your workplace. If people North America take more leisure time, I feel like they would have more control of their life. In the real world knowing that you have free time shall teach you how you can spend the limited time you have.
