The Importance of Recreation

“All work and no play makes you a dull boy”. This saying has lasted in time forquite long and for good reasons. If you work all the time, and don't have timefor some occasional recreation, you will simply tire yourself. Recreation isbeneficial for both physical and psychological wellbeing（益处）.

      The values and benefits of recreation for professionals are numerous. Let's talk about five values and benefits that work out best and encourage you to take recreational activities from time to time.

1)Helps You Relax--Recreational activities help you relax and give soothing effect to your nerves.

2)Impacts Your Health--Recreational activity is an excellent medicine for ailments which cannot be cured by any other manner.

3)Social Benefits--It helps you meet like minded people and develop a favorable rapport.(密切关系；和谐；默契）

4)Effective Time Utilization-When your body is at the best of its form both interms of health and energy, recreational activities helps you utilize your time effectively.

5)Sharpen Skills--The value and benefit of recreational activities is best seen in the form of skills that gets developed and sharpened over the period of time.

 Recreation feels like a rain shower during scorching heat(炎热；酷热）. Recreation is the time to be to get her with your friends and family and to have fun. Devoting some time for recreation helps in staying healthy and achieving a peace of mind.

 

Questions for Discussion:

1. What's the meaning of the first sentence "all work and no play makes you a dull boy"?

2. What are the values and benefits of recreation for professionals?

Suggested Answers:

1.The first sentence means that if you work all the time, and don’t have time for some occasional recreation, you will simply tire yourself.

2. There are five values and benefits of recreation for professionals. 1)Helps your relax; 2) Impacts your health; 3) Social benefits; 4) Effective time utilization; 5) Sharpen skills.

    Recreation is an essential part of human life and finds many different forms which are shaped naturally by individual interests but also by the surrounding social construction. Recreational activities can be communal or solitary, active or passive, outdoors or indoors, healthy or harmful, and useful for society or detrimental. A list of typical activities could be almost endless including most human activities, a few examples being reading, playing or listening tomusic, watching movies or TV, gardening, hunting, hobbies, sports, studies, andtravel. Not all recreational activities can be considered wise, healthy, orsocially acceptable or useful—examples are gambling, drinking, or delinquent activities.

   A traditional view holds that work issupported by recreation, recreation being useful to “recharge the battery” so that work performance is improved. Work, an activity generally performed out of economic framework, however can also be pleasurable and may be self-imposedthus blurring the distinction to recreation. Many activities may be work forone person and recreation for another, or, at an individual level, over time recreational activity may become work, and vice-versa. Thus, for a musician,playing an instrument may be at one time a profession, and at another a recreation.