Yup indeed, it rolls around time and time again; “The Weekend”
It is obvious right? So what is the difference between a Tuesday and a Saturday?
The timeline of a J-O-B could have something to do with it, you work a job Monday to Friday perhaps and the weekend means a couple of days where you get to unwind and relax.
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The Saturday of yours would be much different if this is your situation of course. A day doing some laundry and a bit of a market day to then settle in at home with a nice thought out meal and loads of time to cook it for yourself and then a movie to fall asleep to. Sweet dreams on your Saturday of chill.
The Saturday where you get to wake up late and have that mid morning breakfast, eggs how you like them and a lazy brunch session. Then it is all about the glad rags and off out with friends. Tapas bar and taxi rides to a few too many beverages and who cares that it is 2 am when you collapse in the hay, it’s Saturday after all and Sunday is a whole day of recuperation
The Saturday where you wake up early anyway (routine and all that) and you get to have a slow coffee with a book to read. A day to yourself visiting the city coffee shops and museums. An open air market for a stroll around. Laundry on Sunday and a dinner date with a friend. Home early and ready for Monday all over again.
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What about the family and the kids though?
Saturday and they have no school and you want to make activities for everybody for the day. A ton of clothes to be washed and mouths to be fed. Running here and there like a taxi with drop offs and pick ups. Is there a baby sitter available for your night out getting “hammered” with friends? Hair done and the one de-stressing evening you get each week? Sunday family roast meal and all in bed early for school on Monday.
Some work in the shed on a DIY project with your son to help. Wash the car perhaps and teach him what little chores are all about. Is it traditional to have the “swim in the bath” on Saturday nights? Bath night used to be designated to Saturday back in my time and then pyjamas and a kiddie movie on the one night a week when we were allowed to stay up a little later.
THINKING BACK
When I reflect back on weekends I recall how it was fun time. No serious school work to be bothered about and Friday nights were easy going and Saturday was full of all the fun stuff. Soccer to be played and maybe help my dad with a project. There were other Saturdays where I had swimming to go to in the mornings and piano lessons after lunch (they were a drag) There were many a Saturday night where I did enjoy a bath too. I call myself a traditionalist and still honour Saturday as “bath night” to this day lol.
I did the going out and nightlife stuff too a little later on and the Saturday night out usually a meal and some club somewhere. Always easier to get a table booked for a Friday night over a Saturday night though. Goes to show you how Saturday night brings more and more people “out out” as they say.
Sunday was a day I remember being a lazy day usually. Late home cooked breakfast and the afternoon to relax with the feet up. No more meal cooking on a Sunday because of the devoted time to no work and all rest.
I wonder who will comment and share what the weekend means to you?
Friday; chill evening?
Saturday; activities day?
Sunday; lazy day?
Is your time all routine now and you repeat the weeks and the weekends over and over Do you find it hard to fill up the free time weekends offer you? Maybe you never have any free time at all?
Is Saturday night the b-all end-all of the entire week? And if so, why is it any different to Tuesday night?
I guess a rock star has their Saturday night as the high point of the week. The big gig night and their most important work night of the week. Just as the person who works at the cinema has their busiest night on Saturday too. The waitress too for that matter. Professional athletes have “Game Day” at the weekends and so spectators have that in their plans to go and watch right?
Who else I wonder has their busier time at the weekend compared to their midweek.
We look forward to the weekends and then we also hear people say they dread Monday.
I wonder these things and present the concept of making every day count no matter the name of the day. Our life is a one time around trip and even though the saying does exist “Failing to plan is planning to fail”
So I guess a planned weekend is a good weekend.
Now that you have imagined all that I have mentioned above and have read down this far perhaps you can press the little like button. And of course you can find some reading material in the link that I have highlighted. It is a link to books that I have written, I simply ask you to stop by and check them out. You may have just stumbled upon your next “weekend read” book and can plan next weekend for enjoying the reading days that Saturday and Sunday offer you. Allow the full weekend because you will be struggling to put the books down and do anything else lol.
Have a great day, whatever it is named.
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