Too many of us sit in front of the TV on a Sunday evening filled with a slight sense of dread for the Monday morning to come. You only have to look at the memes on Facebook – “SMONDAY – When Sunday stops feeling like Sunday and the anxiety of Monday washes over you“; “Goodbye weekend, I am going to miss you“; pictures of sad kittens mourning the presence of Sunday evening. It gets to the point where we ruin what could be a lovely evening worrying about what may or may not happen the next day. Or we are regretting the fact that we have got up late and have “wasted” a lot of the day. We don’t live in the present moment. We regret the past and are anxious about the future. Added to that is the sad reality that far too many of us are doing jobs that we do not enjoy; jobs that make us yearn for the weekend; jobs that see us struggling to Wednesday’s hump day then wind down to the next weekend. At what point do we actually enjoy our lives?
It might be too big a dream to think that we can all do work that we love that earns us enough money to live. And many of us who dislike the thought of Monday mornings are perfectly okay once the week starts; the job isn’t actually that bad.
I have only three of these Sundays left including this one. Even so, I don’t want to waste the time feeling anxious about tomorrow. I want to be happy, to enjoy my life. I am having a calm, peaceful weekend catching up on sleep, doing some chores, seeing friends, reading and spending time with one of my daughters. The weekend isn’t over yet.
Of course, there is a lot more that could be written about changing our jobs, living lives that do not demand the well-paying jobs that we think we need to live. But even if we change nothing else – we could, at the very least, try to concentrate our heart and mind on what is happening now.