According to a magazine article I read recently, we now live in an age of increasing leisure. Not only are more and more people reaching retirement age with their taste for enjoyment and even adventure relatively intact but the working week is becoming shorter and the opportunities for leisure are becoming greater and greater all the time. Not to mention the fact that people tend to spend less time traveling to work or may even be working from home. What I can't understand, however, is who these people are. As far as I tell the whole thing is another one of the journalistic fictions. I admit that there are a lot of retired people nowadays but I am not sure that all of them are dashing about learning hang- gliding or sailing single-handed round the world. My own parents seem to spend most of their time gazing at the television. And as for the shorter working week, I wish someone would remind my company about it. I seem to be working longer and longer hours all the time. The little leisure time I have eaten into by sitting in the traffic jams or waiting for trains to show up at rain-swept platforms. I haven't noticed any dramatic improvements in my lifestyle either, but perhaps I just have to wait until I get my pension.
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