Ah, yes, Sunday. The day of rest. Monday Eve. The prelude to a brand new week.
I don’t know about you, but I love Sundays. I love having a Sunday routine of sleeping in until 9 AM, getting McDonald’s breakfast, going for a food shop, and spending the rest of the day doing a mixture of getting things done around the house and lounging around with my husband. It sounds weird, but Sunday is the one day of the week where I feel like getting my entire life together.
And, at the same time, I absolutely hate it.
You can probably take a very accurate guess as to why I hate it. Yup, because after Sunday comes Monday. And while the thought of getting my life together in one fell swoop on a Sunday is so appealing to me, the thought of getting through another week is enough to make me want to crawl back into bed and pretend like Monday isn’t slowly creeping around the corner.
I live for the weekends now. My husband and I both work full time, so during the week we don’t get up to much because we’re both so tired and have to get up early for work the next morning. So we use weekends as an excuse to spend some serious quality time together.
When Sunday rolls around, I have such conflicted feelings about it. While it’s great to have a day of the week that’s relaxing and comforting in so many ways, all of the responsibilities of the upcoming week are slowly burrowing out from the place in the back of my mind where I’ve buried them for the past 48 hours.
Now, I’m not saying that I hate working and just want to shirk all of my responsibilities. And I don’t think I’m alone in this, either. I just think we all live for the weekend now, don’t we? We’re all so time poor that we use the weekends as a chance to recharge, get things done that we can’t during the week, etc. We pretend, if only for a couple short days, that Monday won’t come. Which is why Sunday starts on such a high, and ends on such a low.
I don’t know, perhaps I need to change my mindset about our friend Monday. Maybe that will change my relationship with Sunday…maybe. For now, our complicated relationship will stay as is.
Anyone else have a love-hate relationship with Sunday? Let’s commiserate.
xx Lauren
