When you are anywhere under five years old, your outlook on the week is pretty fantastic. You don't have school or work to attend every day, so the concept of "looking forward to the weekend" doesn't cross your mind. Yeah, mommy and daddy and older siblings will be around the house more, but your days are filled with endless hours to spend how you please and your stress level is hopefully a constant zero no matter what day it is. As soon as we start kindergarten, BAM, our week is divided into the "normal week" and the "weekend." The sad thing is, this feeling will never go away ... for the rest of our lives ...
These are my reasons for why the weekend should be longer.
1. More time to develop your skill set
If the weekend was longer, you could get all of your homework and "to do" lists out of the way immediately and spend the rest of your time learning a whole host of new life skills with which you will impress people. Don't have time to learn a new language, crochet, or become surprisingly good at wood working? No longer a problem. When the weekend is longer, you can become a much better human.
2. More "going out" nights
With the current way our life is set up, you only have a handful of nights in which you can go out on the town (that is if you are responsible and want to have a job one day/keep your job). With more time on the weekends, there will be more nights to spend at the bars, out on a date, or just straight chillin' with Netflix and a bowl of popcorn. Traveling will be a much better experience as well.
3. More time to write articles for The Odyssey
*DISCLAIMER: I fully understand that no amount of time can be added to lengthen the weekend. Even if there were a way to do this, we would all just end up procrastinating for a longer amount of time.
