Leisure and Human Development

Personal Philosophy of Leisure

Matt Clatworthy

Everyday people across the world deal with important decisions regarding their lives. Decisions involving family, friends, work, and finance all contribute to our livelihood and wellness. One exceedingly important choice in life, which is often overlooked or taken for granted, is what we decide to do as leisure. Leisure is anything done in one’s free time for fun, that lacks compulsion and is absent from any negative acts against society. Leisure is a state of mind, an attitude, and an activity that brings pleasure. It is an experience felt when one does something in that in the past had been useful for survival. Leisure is literature and is apparent in all forms of literature. Leisure is in magazine articles, greeting cards, novels, and newspapers. Literature allows the reader to fantasize, the writer to express feelings, and the mind of both to escape reality for a moment in time. Over 1.04 billion books are sold ea...