I recall the Imam would always say: “do not study when it is recreation time nor engage in recreation activities when it is study time. Each should be in its respective place.” Likewise, he recalled that during childhood he never interchanged the recreation and study hours and that the two of them were meant to balance one another.
Name of the narrator: Atefeh Eshraqi, Zan-e-Rouz magazine, no. 1267
Title of the Book: Impressions and Memoirs about Imam Khomeini's Practical Behaviour, vol. 1, chapter six, page 298