Leisure as Purpose
Aristotle saw leisure as life’s highest use, a space for contemplation, arts, and virtue, with work existing to secure it. Modern culture often reverses that order, treating leisure as recovery from labor. Sweden offers a practical expression in lagom, the “just right” balance guiding daily rhythms. Paired with fika, friluftsliv, summer holidays, and evenings reserved for family, it thrives when technology automates the tedious, protects offline rituals, and through wearables affirms time well lived. Aristotle --> Swedish life -->