It’s Sunday night and you are relaxing, eating Sunday night dinner, and catching up on your shows. You are having a great time reflecting on your restful weekend. Just as you are planning the rest of your wonderful night you suddenly have the worst realization ever…. Tomorrow is Monday.
Now, we all know Mondays suck, but why do we hate them so much? It’s not like we don’t know that it’s coming, and there is absolutely no way to avoid it. Instead of hating them so much, it would be so much healthier and more productive if we embraced Mondays head on and had a great start of the week. We could get up extra early and prepare for the week, starting off on a good leg.
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Rather than being productive with our Mondays, instead we choose to take the difficult route. We avoid thinking about that terrible day until the absolute last minute, when we go to bed Sunday night. We dread Mondays, as if they were hell itself, and we make no initiative to make things better. We mess up our sleeping cycles on the weekends knowing that we will not be able to sleep Sunday night, resulting in a very tired and cranky Monday morning. We leave any preparing for the week that needs to be done until five minutes before we need to leave for work, or school Monday morning which makes us more annoyed and stressed when we do make it to where we need to go. We have to rush through the morning, not getting the healthy breakfast, morning shower, or maybe even the morning workout that we should have accomplished before we left for the day. And worst of all, we wake up with a bad attitude and all we want to do is just go back to sleep.
The Monday Morning Hate is not a recent discovery that our species has to deal with. The root of the word Monday, in any language, means moon. This shows that Mondays symbolize the moon, and with that, its darkness and gloominess. On the other hand, the root of the word Sunday means sun, just as it looks. This signifies that Sundays, and the rest of the weekend, represent the sun and bright and happy things. After learning these definitions, it clearly proves that Mondays have never been a popular day, dating back to the creation of the names of the days of the week themselves, all the way back in the Roman days.
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Now we know that Mondays are the bane of our existences, and they are not going to disappear anytime soon, so I think we have to pick one of two options. Option One: Embrace life. Sunday night prepare for your week, get a good night’s sleep, and wake up early Monday morning to be refreshed for the day(s) ahead. This is probably the more sensible option. Or Option Two: Live life as you always have. Hop on the struggle bus Monday morning and ride it through until you have survived by Friday evening, only to start it all over in two day's time. But this time, we know what we are getting ourselves into and doing it anyway. In all honesty, this is probably the one that most of us will end up going with (I know I will). But, at least I tried!
Good luck next Monday and remember, there are only 26 more Mondays left in 2015!
