Free Time
Introduction
The term free time is a word that is used to refer the period in which a person is not occupied with strenuous work, also referred to as ‘leisure time’. Of significant consideration is that free time is more reliant on social aspect of a person. Free time desires no contrast to be made between individuals and their social roles. These tasks taken up, impact on the deepest attribution of human aspects to a length that in a social integration becomes difficult to establish anything in individuals which is not determined functionally. Currently, free time has grown massively which is attributed to automation and atomic power that have coming to being. This has however taken a different turn slowly that even the persons themselves are not able to notice this.
According to Theodor Adorno, free time is very different from leisure time. Theodor attributes leisure time to be a something that is of relation to a comfortable lifestyle. It is neither has something to do with being free or use of spare time. Fee time differs with it considering that it is reliant on the social orientation of a society. In consideration of free time what comes to mind is what it ends up to be. Currently, it has grown and it is attributed to inventions that lead to music, and reading. It acquires the attribute of being strangely excluded in that it is spent socializing using electronic equipment or visiting an opening to do less professional things. Theodor states that we are less aware of how free time changes and the impact it has on our work.
Depending on the culture, free time has very different attribution. There are also varied attitudes taken up between free time and work. People do not control their lives by creating a contrast between free time and work time. By making this contrast has no basis in that there is no free time and they do not enjoy this period. In the Indian culture, the elderly took it upon themselves to make the children to sleeptime (Adorno, 2001). They would be involved in telling stories to their grandchildren so as to make them sleep. In the process they enjoyed themselves. According to Theodore he illustrates a correlation between his work and free time, which he terms it to be very close. There exists no variation in what he does at work and what he does as part of his free time. This differs from what other cultures see free time and work time as being almost similar.
The variation between free time and work has acquired the tag of it being like a norm in individuals while being conscious and unconscious. As an attribute from the work ethics, work is taken to be a time that one recreates from the normal work pattern. A person hence works less as it is an attachment of work whereas in the main work a person is involved in intense working patterns. One is therefore supposed to put his or her concentration in the working so as to accomplish a particular objective with a reward at the end as the motivator. Attention is hence necessary so as to achieve the best out of the work, errors that may be incurred while undertaking the work has consequences that at times may lead to termination from work or trimming of wages. Free time on the other hand has little resemblance to work; one is not mandated to complete the work in a specific time. The work is done in a relaxed manner though with an object in mind. Its consequences may not be severe as it is done at the persons own desire and attention is usually not that mandatory. In reference to children, they are advised not to strain that much during their free time as it may end being quite dangerous for their health.
It is hence important for one to have a hobby that one undertakes when he or she is free. If for any case one does not have any it becomes a society concern. The society may take a negative stance against you or even impose one on you. For people who have not being in the habit of experiencing free times may find it hard to notice even when they are completely free.
Though the each and every person being advised to take a certain activity as a free time activity and if not the society ridicules this person in addition to being a time one enjoys, free time is argued to take up some unpleasant ideologies. The act of sun bathing is termed to be an unpleasant act that adversely affects the mind. This act goes with the belief that one is more beautiful by changing the skin tone, it hence falls on public perception that makes one to use free times to perform out dated practices. Sun bathing consequently leads to boredom. According to Schopenhauer’s theory of boredom, people more often than not utilize their free times to undertake the fulfillment of their desires which would otherwise lead to boredom. This negative attribute of the human life is not accepted by Theodore who argues that boredom is not a primary aspect of life as it comes about when one is compelled to work. He adds that when one is free and controlled by people who are free it does not lead to boredom. As these activities are in themselves enjoyable. Boredom is attributed to be an act of being dull and desperation and may lead to defamation of imaginations.
Conclusion
Individuals are encouraged to undertake activities during their free time. Theodore attributes the limited activity happening during free time as an act of a trimmed imagination that hinders them from enjoying this period. Free time should be used to develop ones desires like keeping fit and advancing ones experience. These are things that one is not able to accomplish during the work time as the time has already been scheduled to do work that is compelled. It is advisable to undertake varied forms of free time activities to eliminate the aspect of boredom and truncated imaginations that one may be at a risk of getting. Free time is hence not a variation to work. Work has its ideal while free time is an extension of work but done with less compulsion as work is. In relation to culture, free time and work has acquired varied attributions that are strictly followed.
Reference
Adorno, Theodore W., (2001) “Chapter 8: Free time”. The culture industry: selected essays on mass culture, (pp. 187-197) London: Routledge.
