Britain has recent by been described as a “leisure society.” This is because there are a great variety of leisure pursuits. Young people generally go out on Friday or Saturday nights to a disco, to a concert or to a pub. In recent years going out for a meal or getting a take-away meal have become popular too. During the past years there is a great increase in keeping fit and staying healthy. A lot of teens started running, jogging and going to different fitness clubs in their spare time. Aerobics classes and fitness clubs opened in every town, and the number of recreation centres greatly increased. Indoor pools, with their wave-making machines, water slides and tropical vegetation, have became very popular.
The same is true in Russia. A lot of teens go in for different kinds of sport. Sport helps them to feel as fit as a fiddle. In both countries there are special programmes for problem teenagers, such as a high-risk activities, for example they are taught to jump out of aeroplanes. But despite the increase in the number of teens participating in sport, the majority of young people still prefer to be spectators. They prefer to be couch potatoes. Watching sports on TV is a popular leisure activity, as is going to football matches on Saturday. Cinemas have been redesigned with four or more screens, each showing a different film at the same time, and a lot of teens like going to the cinemas too.
The young generation is fond of communication. There are many available methods of communication nowadays, and the most popular one is computers. A lot of teenagers spend plenty of time working on computers. The Internet seems really good fun. You may send e-mails to friends from different countries and get their answers instantly. You even may talk to them. It is easy and quick. A lot of teenagers have mobile telephones, so they can always be contacted, if they keep their telephone switched on, at any time of the day or night, or tend text messages.
Nowadays money play a very important role in people's lives. Some people believe that happiness can be reached only with a huge wallet in your pocket, when others think that money doesn't equal happiness. Who is right? The question is controversial. Now I am going to express my point of view and debate with my opponents.
Personally, I strongly believe that you can't be happy without money nowadays. Firstly, if you're wealthy, you can get a better life and reach a new social level. Secondly, if you have money -- therefore, you've got independence and a certain amount of options. Basically, you can choose from whatever you want, and the more money you have, the better your options will be. Thirdly, you can buy some trendy clothes that makes you seem more attractive than people who can't afford them.
However, there is another opinion that money are still just a mean of payment. To begin with, you can't really buy human values and pure, sincere feelings. Also, when money become not just a mean of payment, but a goal, that's where the problems begin. Money are often a object of speculation and theft.
Undoubtedly, just money alone doesn't bring anything good. Yet, I insist that money, exactly, became the sign of a happiness and wellfare of a human being because with the help of money we can realise various and interesting projects, get a good education and just make our lives more comfortable and safe.
In conclusion, i can say that we all perceive money in our own unique way, we all act differently to its presence or absence, but we need to learn how to handle them properly.
