It is undeniable that recreational activities are on a continuous change. While I accept that social trends play a key role in people’s favourite leisure activities, I believe that we ultimately choose the entertainments that is to our tastes.
Due to technological development, the number of entertaining activities is continuously increasing, and this undoubtedly affects popular hobbies in all human societies over time. Cheap international flights, for instance, have made overseas travel possible for millions of people, and consequently, International trip has become a global trend. Today, many people prefer to travel abroad rather than take a domestic trip, while some of them do not even notice the reason that they travel for. This group of people often decide to travel abroad because they are unconsciously affected by hundreds of advertisements of traveling companies that they watch every day. A personal example of this would be when I traveled to Dubai in 2017, and at the end of my trip I realized that Dubai was not even close to the city that I had seen in the advertisements.
Alongside all new entertainments, there are countless old yet popular hobbies, such as going to the beach or gardening. As far as I am concerned, no matter whether you are elderly or young, adult or adolescent, you would definitely enjoy surfing, paddle boarding or only lying on the warm sands of the beach, while sunshine caresses your skin and a cool breeze strokes your cheeks. The same is true if we look at gardening. Gardening has always been amongst the most favourite hobbies for elderly members of almost every modern human societies. These all-time popular hobbies show us that we are free to choose what we really want to do in our spare time, regardless of the abundance of newly-invented hobbies.
In conclusion, I believe that while social trends have a profound impact on people’s interests towards entertainment, we finally opt to do the kinds of hobbies that we really enjoy.
