My Leisure Time: The Importance Of Leisure Time

Being a university student, a typical busy week consists of school work, working , and stressing all at once. Because of such busy schedule, In my opinion leisure time is very important part of our daily lives but how one spends that leisure time is influenced by sociological factors in society. Our society and its standards are constantly evolving and expanding each day. Most people’s actions and decisions are conclusively determined by current social structures that exists in our society. Some sociological factors include economic status, gender, education, environment and so on. These factors have an unconscious outcome of influencing our everyday life decisions, and as a result our freedom of choice is almost like a detachment when looking inside a society like ours. Most people would agree that we have a freedom of choice and free will but as a matter of fact these social factors have been prioritized in people’s heads and limiting everyone’s decision making. So the real question is do we really have a free will or just following these hegemonic and sociocultural factors for whatever the reason may be. After observing my leisure time map, it’s certainly noticeable that my typical week looks like a typical university students life. Most of my time is dedicated to being at lectures and labs at university, studying, working a part time job and sleeping. Rest of my time goes to commuting to those places, whether its by bus, subway or a car, social media, spending