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Shopping is the favorite pastime for most of the young people. Why do you think is that? Do you think they should be encouraged to do some useful activities in their free time?

Nowadays, almost all young people believe that the time they spend in the mall is spending quality time. In my opinion, I believe that they should do a different activity that will add value to them. Both these thoughts will be discussed in the essay below with relevant examples.

To begin with, I think that younger people are constantly being encouraged by a lot of advertisements and influencers to do shopping on the internet. This case is steering them towards spending their free time in the shopping centers. There are always high quality products and happy people in advertisements, thus people believe that they will be happy when they purchase them. Furthermore, their family usually suggest to take brand products as a gift and reward and this issue has promoted consumerism. That is why, younger people are always conditioned to buy something and to go to the malls.

On the other hand, I believe that young people should explore magnificient places, learn to play a musical instrument, read a book and watch the film during their pastime. They might join new groups and meetings. Their brains should be improved by themselves with the help of an activity that will add value to their lives. Young people must have their minds occupied with more productive thoughts. During school period, children should have hobbies and activities in their schools and the curriculum must include them. For example, Some governments even give a gift card to young people. They can visit museums, art gallery and art activities, thanks to gift cards.

As a consequence, even if younger people think that leisure time can be spent in a shopping mall, I do not agree on their remarks. Namely, I believe that young people can spend free time with quality activities. As for me, governments must give some gift cards for the activities of young people.