What are problems in trying to achieve balance life? Solution

ĐỀ 8/3/2012

What are problems in trying to achieve balance life? Solution 

- Make great sacrifices

- Unstable Economic foundation

- Pressure from the boss

- Lose their identity- work becomes the national obsession

Solution

- List priorities

- Boss reduces their demand

- Social fixed scheme in leisure time

Hurry sickness is a modern disease as claimed by experts. There are people trying out there to avoid it and redress the balance in their life while others enjoy the so-called imbalance, believing it as a natural trend. My essay will shed light on the problems people are suffering in an effort to create a balanced life and solutions suggested.

Numerous troubles are listed in an attempt to fight for our balance of life. To some, to become balanced is to make sacrifices. Being obsessed with their work for years and dreaming of promotional opportunities, people are hardly able to give up their jobs for a while to enjoy leisure time while women who are labeled themselves as inborn housewives feel stressed with house-chores and desire to be outdoor or take outside jobs. The clear picture is that as a result of concentrating on a target for long, it would be a struggle for them to re-arrange their time-tables. Others, for sake of economic pursuit, see themselves in the same rut when if they stop working, they are haunted with the idea that who is going to take care of themselves in the rainy days? Particularly, with couples craving for children’s best education in the future and secure retirement years, their need for work is endless, which, again, drives them out of the balance scale. To make the matter worse, only after the invention of the Internet has become established have people suck in an endless rat race with deadlines calling and productivity forced to be heightened at all cost by bosses who ought to put pressure on their employees; otherwise, the cut-throat competition may dive them down first. Socially speaking, work now turns into a badge for people in any community, by dint of which their ability and personality are conventionally measured. According to the world’s report, since the early twenty century, despite the struggles for fewer working hours, the sad truth is that the amount of working has been on a non-stop rise till the alarming point. Looking at this scenario, we can fathom how hard people find in the endeavor to achieve the balance of their life.

Much as difficult the situation proves to be, there are solutions suggested. Personally speaking, it is time for each person to redefine his goal of life, instead of following the herd voice and mistaking their goal for his. By taking part in a club with people of the same interest such as playing golf, listening to music and others, perhaps, people can again find their balance, staying away from the workaholics and figure their inner voice. Several others opt for the involvement in so-called meditation classes to contemplate in the mental world where they belong to, after which no sooner have they feel relaxed than their balance is set. Another step forward, namely for youngsters, is that they should know that instead of working always, there are equally important needs such as their families, friendship and hobby. Only by integrating such activities into their life schedule are they able to begin what the value of a balanced life is. But individual efforts are rarely sufficient, especially when the society still pushes people to the imbalance by imposing high productivity and demands. To tackle this problem, I strongly believe that governments should take actions to propose a fix scheme on the number of leisure of hours for workers to avoid the escalating requirements of greedy bosses and raise drastic punishments against any boss who violates to protect the right of every worker. After all, they have the right to have a balanced life and are not supposed to live in the dream of bosses only. In some nations, positively, that each citizen is recently entitled to have the entire Saturday, Sunday and at least 40 hours off is a must.

-         Redress /ri’dres/ (v)(n) sửa lại, uốn nắn (sai lầm, tật xấu…)

-         House-chores (n) công việc lặt vặt trong nhà

-         Rut (n) vết lún, vết đường mòn, rãnh

-         Pursue (v) – (n) pursuit

-         Haunt (n) nơi hay lui tới (v) hay lui tới / ám ảnh = obsess

-         Crave/ long / thirst / aspire (v) + for sth :  khao khát – (adj) eager/ avid +for

-         Cut-throat competition (n) cuộc cạnh tranh gay gắt, kịch liệt

-         Meditation (n) sự suy ngẫm, sự trầm tư mặc tưởng

-         Scheme /ski:m/ (n) kế hoạch, sự sắp xếp theo hệ thống

-         Greedy /gri:di/ (adj) tham lam = voracious = rapacious = avaricious

(n) thói tham lam : greed = rapacity / rapaciousness = cupidity