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Aug 28, 2008

Topic 115

115. Some people prefer to plan activities for their free time very carefully. Others choose not to make any plans at all for their free time. Compare the benefits of planning free-time activities with the benefits of not making plans. Which do you prefer — planning or not planning for your leisure time? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your choice.

DIFFERENT CHOICES UNDER DISTINCTIVE SITUATIONS

From my standpoint, both planning free-time activities and not making plans have several benefits. Generally speaking, planning free-time can make life follow certain pattern and time is not likely to be wasted; with respect to not designing schedules, it reduces complexity of life and makes people feel relaxed. When it comes to me, I would like to choose distinctive choice in different circumstances.

As a threshold matter, carefully calculating how to spend free-time can benefit folks in several aspects. In the first place, if leisure time is arranged by delicate plans, more meaningful things can be finished than in other cases. For instance, on weekends, as for students, a plan that reads reviewing on Saturday and pre-studying on Sunday certainly contribute to students' performance on tests, which is good for their later life. In the second place, planning free-time also help us with journey. For example, if we want to go to certain resorts in limited leisure time -- for example, three days, a good itinerary can lead us to more interesting places than dawdling without goals.

Secondly, with respect to not making plans, there are a few benefits as well. For example, without a pre-designed plan, folks are able to do what they want to, instead of being narrowly confined by schedules. Under this circumstance, people may feel quite relaxed, which is especially inspiring when they go home after a day long's hard working. Moreover, changes always happen and plans don't comply with reality all the time; thus, in some cases, even a elaborated plan will be out of date and be discarded by their designers. For instance, parents have decided to bring their offspring to climb hills; however, when they get up on morning, they are reluctant to find out that their children have a fever. As a result, the plan has to be abandoned.

When it comes to me, I would like to plan a period that lasts more than one week, and not to arrange my activities on purpose if free-time is less than three days. The reason why I want to schedule long time is that something valuable may be fulfilled in relatively long time. For instance, last summer, I planned to go to my community to help pupils with reading. At the time I had stayed with lovely pupils for four weeks, almost each of them had considerably ameliorated ability of reading, which made me highly satisfied. Nevertheless, if free-time is relatively short, typically less than three days, I prefer to do things according to my feelings on every day. For instance, calling a friend randomly to watch movies may help me get out of tiredness.

In summary, planning or not planning leisure time has different benefits respectively. Furthermore, either side’s benefits are not absolutely better than those of another. Under different situations, I would be prone to distinctive choices.

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