Youth of today should be encouraged entering into sports! Why? For the reason that they must use their spare time wisely. Children nowadays are very fond of watching television as if they could not understand the world they are living if they could not fob watch TV! It’s good if they watch educational shows but as I observed in a common household, children prefer to watch crap or non sense cartoon strips shows.
In connection with this very alarming behavior of our children, young generation today is into computer games. I was shocked by what I saw in the internet café that there are still minors playing violent and very brutal computer games at midnight which is not a justifiable activity of their age. With this, I accused those internet café owners who tolerate this kind of endeavor. They are always thinking of their own profits without even have care for the betterment of our children! You should be put into jail for jeopardizing the future of our children!
Another observation is that, I could see no more children playing games such as patintero, piko, luksong-tinik etc. in their backyards, which those games are consider as part of our Larong Pinoy or cultural games. I challenge our Sangguniang Kabataan Officials to be an advocate of resurrecting our Larong Pinoy and introduce it once more to our fellow youth which we are recognized around the world for having such cultural pastime.
I had interviewed some of teenagers if what is their reason why they are into sports, their answers are almost the same – they want to unwind from their very busy schedule of their school activities! I am very pleased to hear their response that they choose sports as part of their recreational activity.
As we all know sports is one type of exercise where we get to utilize all of our body parts. When we are also into sports we are also using our intellect. It means that sport enhances not only our physical aspect but as well as our intellectual side.
We are not only enhancing our physical nor our intellectual phase but it also develops our ethical principles. Here are some benefits that the youth can get if they try to involve themselves in any sports activity in their place.
1. Sportsmanship – youth can easily accept defeat and move on with their life. In real life happenings it is very important that children at a young age can adapt to certain situations like defeat, failure or lost so that if they grow old they could easily espouse to this kind of stimuli.
2. Camaraderie – youth are being train how to deal with people fairly and with a proper manner. Through sports they will learn how to cooperate with other children, understanding and accepting individual differences and to build up better friendship with one another.
3. Build up healthy lifestyle. Since sports expand and amplify the consciousness of the human body and responds to the various stimuli, this can prevent vices such as alcoholism and drug addiction. The alcohol and drugs are the two most common enticements in every adolescent life. It is better if the youth focuses their attention to sports than to these things. Yes to sports, No to Drugs!
I challenge everyone to encourage ourselves and other people to engage into sports and live a healthy life.
