What does the personal life of a person consist of?

Under the phrase "A person does not have a personal life," they usually mean that he does not have a family. If the latter is, then they will say about him: "With his private life everything is in order." It turns out that the vast majority of personal life equates to family life. Does everyone agree with this?

Women who single-handedly raise children and carry the burden of family household problems will probably agree with such an "equation". Men, almost non-existent houses, carrying out their function as a breadwinner and exemplarily containing their families, are likely to stand up for their rights. They will say that from time to time they need a personal life, not connected with the daily routine of business activity and family responsibilities. And what content do they put into this concept: do they start a relationship with another woman or climb mountains, sink to the bottom of water bodies or fly on hang-gliders - this is a matter of their conscience and personal preferences.

What is personal life?

Many believe that this is a secret area that no one should know about.

Others think that this is any relationship between a man and a woman.

Still others refer to this concept of life, related to personal interests, which have nothing in common with official and public activities. Each point of view is not devoid of meaning.

From a legal point of view, personal life is viewed as a sphere of domestic, family, intimate and other relationships, freed from the burden of public tasks.

Psychologists regard it as a sphere of individual development of the individual. There is a whole direction, designed to provide services to improve this aspect of life by improving one's own qualities of character. Thus, experts help a person improve the quality of his life, including personal.

In the history of the development of society there was a period when the person's personal life was only the actions to ensure the physical survival of both the individual and the whole society. He had to get himself and others food, he himself had to build a roof over his head. There was not even a concept of private life. Later, but before the development of technology, people began to be perceived as a representative of a certain profession, they did not even talk about a hobby or any other activity.

Today the individual strives to ensure that his professional activities are strikingly different from his personal life, from rest. Now everyone wants the transition from the worker to the non-working state to look as sharp as possible. A rare person voluntarily takes work at home. Exit from the doors of the office, shop or management implies a transition to a different way of thinking and to activity of a different kind. Often this is a sport, but there may be other options.

But what about the personal life of intellectual workers, from research workers, whose thinking activity implies a 24-hour mode of activity? What is the role of knowledge in human life in general?

First of all, people armed with them, are better able to adapt in society. They are more competitive, so they can get a better job. With their personal lives, these people also rarely have problems, because they know what to read the literature or who can get professional advice.