In the present age, there are an increasing number of people gradually paying attention to the health problems in one way or another. Therefore, they choose various methods to relax such as playing tai chi, going jogging, and swimming. However, it is obvious to see the differences between the old and the young in terms of the different ways they choose. From a rational perspective, there are three reasonable explanations as followed.

Firstly, it is the character that motivates the young people to have the diverse ways to relax. Due to the physical strength, which has considerably separated the two groups, the young people prefer to do some strenuous exercise instinctively .Besides, young people are best characterized by their infinite energies and enthusiasms, consequently they are comparatively more quickwitted and sagacious than the old while the old people have to slow down their speed in this regard and do some gentle exercise in the light of their weaker physical capacity.

Additionally, in the current economic environment, the young people bear

enormous competitive pressure

than the old. The old people hope that everything

goes very smoothly in their twilight years while the young people have to struggle with nature for survival.Therefore, at present, it has formed dissimilar

psychological states, which

generate the different preferences between them. No sooner had the young people taken the violent sports (e.g. boxing and bull fighting) than the old people regarded it as uncivilized and unacceptable both physically and psychologically. Accordingly, we can see frequently the old people enjoy playing

tai chi, learning calligraphy and going jogging and so forth.

Ultimately, the old people have their unique tastes concerning the ways to relax. In other words, they have experienced a lot and they know how to relax in a better way to protect them from getting hurt. It is also a great way, as often as not, for them to exchange the ideas and share their experience to make sure that they get all their feelings out in the open and deal with their problems with their contemporaries.

In short, comparing the differentiae of the old and the young, there is no doubt that why they choose different ways to relax although we live in the same global village.