ABSTRACT
Leisure is also existential when understood as decision and action. Existential sociology deals with the everyday world composed richly of emotions and decisions. Leisure, in the existential metaphor, is an actualization of situated freedom in the world. The first theme of existential approaches to life is that decision creates meaning. Meaning is created in the act of decision. The second theme is that such decision is not necessarily solitary in its setting or consequences. The third theme stresses that decision is actually an act of creation. Existential sociology takes a different stance and begins with the question of “What is human action?” Action presupposes the actor who takes intentioned action in the context of daily life where many of the elements are not repeatable. Leisure is situated action with its uncertainties, feelings, interpretations, and episodic lines, and, as the history of leisure philosophy has insisted, it contains the existential theme of decision as part of the act.
