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Erwinism:Looking Forward to Mondays

by Erwin D. Maramat

There is another name for misery it’s called Monday. Seemingly everybody picks on this day; we just love to hate Monday. For many of us, our Mondays fall on different days of the week. Frustration wrings our spirits and dries us down to the bone whenever it begins. Let’s face it; it is just too hard to get out of bed on a Monday. The transition from a relaxed mode shifting to work mode takes time even for cars to get into that gear—how much more for us?

Just recently, I had a chat with my former psychology professor, and I asked her what is with Monday so much that people hate it? She said, “People draw up the day as a depiction of stress in their minds, mostly because of the pressure they experience at work. Having a positive outlook helps reduce anxiety that is not suppose to be there in the first place. Just remember this; not everyone gets the gift of Monday.”

I see any day as a gift, and Monday just like any other day comes as an opportunity for us to prove ourselves better than who we were yesterday. However great were deeds done and however remarkable we were in the past none of it matters to what we can do now. People neglect the present in hopes there are better days ahead, but the future is deeply rooted in what we do today. Time is immaterial; a foreboding illusion, yet it presides over us. It is what we hope for that grows weary; it is faith in what we do that grows tired; and it is joy in all of us that ages over time.

People blame Monday for the stress at work, but Monday has nothing to do with it. A lot of us are disengaged in what we do and we vocally express our discontent over work because we have no control over it. The stifling tight deadlines that need to be met; the valuable time spent just to get ready; and the people with whom we meddle easily get the better of us. The unlimited freedom we had during the weekends seems to have dissipated, but we have to find a way to relish work because we will be doing so until the day we retire.

Apart from our woeful view of the day, most of us are confined in the habit of looking forward to paydays while disregarding the days in between, and before we know it another year has passed riddled with 15’s and 30’s that devoured our days, instead of it being streamlined with moments of enrichment and gratitude. We light up a fuse just so we can immediately reach the light at the end of the tunnel. Then, there is also an option for us to go out there and change our lives into Sundays by making our dreams happen. If only our lives and our dreams are under license agreement with Lego, we could happily build them as we please, but as it is, this is just a conception. How is this relevant to our topic Monday if you ask? Should we not be eager to start Monday because we have so much to see and so many places visit? Would you let those Mondays slip out of your hands and 10 years down the road be nothing but an obscure period in the past?

If you are not doing what you love all for the sake of security, then you have readily resigned to the fact that you will spend most of your life trudging through heaps of frustration and despair. Why not see Mondays as gateways for possible changes that may open a new life for yourself and your family? If you must stay where you are, foster discipline and keep an open mind to learn, so that you may cultivate a sight that will allow you to see farther, and the farther you see perhaps Monday would not appear as bad. we have every reason to start anew, so we have to stop negative thoughts from taking over and simply set plans to outdo ourselves last week.

Erwinism: “What is to be; let be, for tomorrow in now resides.”

Erwinism:Looking Forward to Mondays

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