IAS Main Exam
Model Essay Question
ALL WORK
AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY
One day, two person started cutting trees with their iron
axes. They challenged each other on who would cut down more in a particular
time. The first person started felling trees continuously without gap. The
second person, who is physically less strong than the first, did that in
different way. He cut the trees for one hour and during another one hour he spends
time on sharpening the axe and on recouping his body strength by taking rest.
At end of the day the second person won the challenge despite he spent less
time on his work.
Work and Play – Not
Mutually Exclusive
In the above story, the second person succeeded because his sharpened axe
accelerated the speed of felling trees. Likewise good play which refreshes our
body and mind will not detrimental to your work.
By generally accepted view, work is set of activities which
earns livelihood, and play is a set of activities which is physical and mental
in nature, gives entertainment and stress relief. If you think playing is
mutually exclusive to working, you are wrong. Successful people give priority
to work and play equally. Lazy people would find justification by saying “I
have lot of works, how can I play with the little time I have to rest?”
actually they don’t understand that playing will enhance the ability to work. If
you can find time in between your work to play, you can keep your body healthy
and it will refresh our mind.
‘Rest’ Doesn’t Mean
‘Being Idle’
Yes, we would be tire after our work. We may well think that
being idle for some time will recoup our strength. It is not so. Being idle
will not bring enthusiasm back. Instead, it will pull us down further to be
idle. Rather a small game we like, can make us more enthusiastic.
Playing Work
If we consider our work as ‘playing’, we won’t get tired.
Would it be boring to you to pursue your hobby? If ‘painting’ is your hobby,
you would love to paint all the day, wont you? Like that our work won’t be a
burden if we do our work enthusiastically as we do our hobby. Most of
the people who are working in corporate find their jobs ‘boring’ after two to
three years of joining. The reason is that they fail to do their work as
playing or to strike a balance between working & playing.
In this globalised world, increasing competition among
companies do more harm to employees. They are prevented from having a quality
time for playing or to spend time with their family. This increases the stress
and affects on the very health of the employees. So he/she become unproductive,
which is detrimental to company’s growth so as to country’s growth. It is very
essential t stop this vicious cycle by keeping workforce ‘Playful’.
Playing Studies
Mere bookish study is not as effective as practical studies.
Playful practical learning is effective learning. In this competitive world,
schools and colleges have become workshops that manufacture workforce for
industries. They don’t bother about all round development of the children.
Parents too especially from middle class family impose more mark scoring study
into the minds of children. Because, they need to ensure a job for their
children. They rarely allow their children to play. The result is obesity.
India which is having more malnourished and stunted children also has
considerable number of obese children. Other benefits of playing include
mitigating the effects of pollution. We are living amidst dusts and heavy metal
containing air from industries. Those heavy metals are dangerous to our health.
Sweat coming out of our body can eject out heavy metals from our body. Thus
playing gets importance for children living in industrial environment.
The most complicated machine in our world is nothing but our
body. God has given the suitable environment on earth to nourish our body.
Unfortunately our seventh sense has been destroying slowly our ambience. In this
contest, playing becomes very important for our all round development. So, we
can contribute more productively to the growth of our nation.
Author: Marxe Kalaimani
He can be contacted at https://plus.google.com/111323365230361428581
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