27. Should people sometimes do things that they do not enjoy doing?
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People should sometimes do things that they do not enjoy doing. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
We will come into many things in our daily life. We deed have choice upon some of them, but the others are what we can’t choose to do or not to do. I agree with the idea that people should sometimes do things that they don’t enjoy doing.
There are a lot of things we enjoy doing: relax, shopping, watching movies, etc. But what the truth is that not all of the things we enjoy doing is good to us. Smoking is very pleasant to people smoke, but it damages their health. If he was told to quit smoking, he will absolutely not enjoy doing this thing. But it’s good for his health. He may get a cancer by not quitting. We may don’t enjoy get up at 6 o’clock and go to library to study TOEFL, but if we don’t do this, we can’t be qualified by our dream universities. Enjoying doing something or not is not a reasonable criteria to judge we should do it or not. What it will bring to us is a mature and logical standard. So sometimes we should do things that we don’t enjoy doing as long as they are good to us. Long term happiness is worth of short pleasant feelings.
In our real life, there are a lot of things we can’t choose, too. The boss asked you to finish the huge task in one night, or you will be fired. You won’t enjoy doing your work all night long, but if you don’t finish it, you will lose your income which guarantees many other things that you enjoy. And nurses may not enjoy cleaning wounds and checking the vomit things of the patients, but they can’t refuse just because they don’t enjoy it. That’s their jobs, and that’s their responsibility. And sometimes boys may not enjoy waiting their girlfriends outside the dorm, but they have to, because if they refuse to do that, maybe they will lose their beloved ones.
But of course, when it comes to another field that relate to leisure and entertainment, this will not be a good way to choose. What we choose should make us happy. If the roller coast will make you vomit, you’d better not to let it ruin your vocation. However, to do things we not enjoy under some circumstances is necessary.
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