Inactive rest

There are many types of rest. There is no common view on the question how a person should spend his/her free time. Both scientists and ordinary people still argue about the way people should spend their rest. Some of them say that the most important thing is to spend free time actively. They claim that rest should imply the change of activities. For example, if you work physically, you are recommended to read a book or watch TV, if your job consists in brainwork, then you'd better do exercises on coming home. The critics of these ideas say that a person being exhausted after hard working day shouldn't be involved in another activity. They say that a tired person needs relaxation and nothing more. I think that both points of view are right. Everything depends on a person and situation. For example, if you come home and you are not tired, you can do something to switch over to pastime. However, people rarely come home full of power. In the majority of cases they come home exhausted and unable to do something. In these cases inactive rest is needed. If you are really very tired, you'd better come home and do nothing. No reading, no watching TV, just lying on your sofa and looking at the ceiling. This type of rest is also very important, it can be practiced in case a person is exhausted both physically and mentally. That is why never condemn people for primitive rest. Try to understand them. They don't have power for any kinds of activities. They need inactive rest to restore their powers. Otherwise, they can be led to serious health disturbances and nervous breakdowns.

Rest and leisure

People need rest. Unfortunately, many of them underestimate its value for our health. There are many people, who sleep 4 hours a day and think that they are quite enough to restore one’s power and productive efficiency. These people are wrong. There are even many theories, which argue that it is even healthy to sleep less than usual. I think that these theories are invented by or with the help of employers, who want to make the most of their employees. People, who believe in these theories don’t understand their real intention. Lack of rest leads to chronic fatigue syndrome. This is a very serious physical and mental disorder, which is very often underestimated by many people. This state resembles a vicious circle. This is not getting enough sleep only, it is much more serious. Not getting enough sleep is only a reason, which causes this syndrome. This syndrome is a vicious circle, because it is very difficult to escape from it. When a person experiences this state, he/she wants to sleep all the time, almost all the time, except the time to go to bed. As you see, this state is very insidious. Let’s consider it in details. You get up and feel exhausted, you dream about going to bed all day long, but when the time for sleep comes, you wake up at last and don’t want to sleep at all. You force yourself to sleep and fail, you suffer from sleeplessness. As a result you wake up exhausted again. the same scenario repeats constantly. If you don’t want to be sent to hospital, don’t drive yourself to this state. Reasonable measures must be in everything.

Rest

All people need rest. This statement is unquestionable. Those, who neglect it are workaholics. They know how to work but they don’t know how to have a rest. They suffer from it very much. Another category of people live to the contrary. They know how to have a rest, but they don’t know how to work, i.e. they are unable to organize their working day, can’t make plans and schedules. These people abuse resting and spend more time for their rest and less time to work accordingly. People who spend too much time for relaxation and doing nothing are called lazybones. They are parasites of our society. Besides, I think that they are very unhappy. Idleness has never made a single person happy. On the contrary, it devastates your heart and soul. You may argue that each person has a right for rest and it is up to him/her to decide how to spend this time. However, I think that doing nothing is unacceptable even during your legal free time. Rest should also be active and bring you some profit. Wasting time can’t be tolerable. Doing something for pleasure will bring you more relaxation than doing noting. For example, if you read an interesting book, you will learn something new, will forget about your work and will divert your attention form your current problems. Thus you will return to your work again and will be energetic and full of new ideas. On the contrary, if you will do nothing, you will think about your work and your brain won’t get the needed dose of rest and you will return to your work languid.