April 5, 2010
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Mondays
When I was still a sweet innocent little boy, I dreaded Mondays. As bedtime on Sunday evening approached, my stomach would turn into knots. I couldn’t sleep and I was a nervous wreck. I dreaded what the next school day will bring.
When I started to work, I dealt with this anxiety by going to work early on Monday. By 7AM, I was already in the office. When people showed up at 9, I was already well into my day. It gave me a sense of being in control. Nowadays, I don’t go into work that early anymore. I’m not as nervous or anxious as I used to be but I can still feel the underlying tension.
Usually, I’ll check my emails on Sunday nights just to make sure there aren’t any landmines waiting for me the next day. If problems come up, I just tell myself that’s what work is all about. That’s why I get paid for – to use my experience, skills and creativity to solve problems. It becomes a more of a mental chess game. Is the stress still there? Of course, but I have become more adept at compartmentalizing this. I’m also fortunate to have a good manager this time as well. I don’t dread Mondays as I have in the past. I am just suspicious of them. Maybe over time I’ll grow to love and embrace Mondays.
I was thinking about all of this an hour ago. I hate that feeling when the weekend is finally over. I can’t believe that I’ve had this feeling for Mondays so long. I guess it’s just another of my quirky little traits that I’ve grown to love gotten used to after all these years.
Have a great Monday everyone.
Comments (26)
I know the feeling man! What’s worst is I am coming from a 4 day weekend. xD
Wonder how you feel on Thursday evening, thinking Friday is the last working day of the week, and a nice relaxing weekend coming up?
Mondays are a brick wall. Garfield hated them, too.
I’ve never had the Monday blues… maybe just a few times when I feel super lazy, but that’s about it.
Monday blues
You mean you’re not still sweet and innocent?
For some reason, I’ve never really dreaded Mondays. Maybe I’ve just been lucky to have jobs I enjoy doing or people I enjoy working with, but I enjoy Mondays just as much as I enjoy any other day of the week. I just focus on doing different things on Monday than I do on Sunday. Plus, I figure there’s always another weekend coming.
9-5 Mon to Fri (Mon to Sat morning in HongKong) office work……I think I need a lot of effort to fit into that routine again…….
Here it is Monday and I’m at work on Xanga! Uh oh! I hope your Monday is bright and beautiful today!
Hehe I used to hate mondays, but now I kinda like them. But that’s only because there’s badminton on Tuesday, so it being monday means “BADMINTON TOMORROW ^_____^!!!”
Monday isn’t my favourite day of the week either – but at least it’s only 24hrs out of 168!
Not anymore for me either. Nowadays, I just take one day at a time. What age you consider as “sweet and innocent”? Just curious!
“sounds like somebody’s got a case of the mondays…” =P
hopefully your monday goes well; today seems quiet, but it’s still before lunch…
I used to let the thought of mondays ruin my last hours
before bed on Sunday nights. But I’ve gotten over that.
Have a great Monday Matt,
*~matthew~*
Yeah not feeling mondays either. :-/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAZgLcK5LzI
Happy Monday to you!
Mondays don’t bother me as Sundays do. That is the laziest day for me, and I cannot get it off the shelf soon enough.
Mondays usually mean a new week of discovery – I mean what will happen today or the next. I don’t fear it and I am ready to work after two days at home – I hate household chores!
I used to get anxiety everyday in my first job in advertising because I was,in the beginning, assigned to tasks required for two people. I always had to do breathing exercises every morning before I started my shifts.
@oxyGENE_08 - ahem… I seem to remember you having a 4 day week again this week.
@stevew918 - on Thursdays, I keep thinking Monday is just a few days away.
@secade - Garfield! Oh I miss that chubby lasagna loving cat.
@Dezinerdreams - I need to be more like you.
@Wangium - boo Monday!
@christao408 - argh… I gotta find some way to annoy you. hee hee…
@agmhkg - oh yeah, you don’t have that regular cycle. I still can’t figure out how you can catch up on sleep.
@heart_beep - today was ok… not as bad as I thought. You always seem so cheery!
@whoosh90 - maybe I should take up badminton!
@Chatamanda - that’s one way of looking at it. It just feels longer than any other day of the week.
@CurryPuffy - under 12? Any age before puberty…. once those hormones kick in… forget it.
@kunhuo42 - hee hee… it sort of quieted down after lunch.
@bleuzeus - I need to get into the same thought pattern as you have.
@yang1815 - I’m in good company.
@CareyGLY - hahaha …. I remember that song.
@TheCheshireGrins - thank you! It went ok… all things considering.
@ZSA_MD - I can’t somehow associate you with the word lazy. I think the laziest day for you would be an extra 5 minutes of rest.
@Fatcat723 - actually that’s an interesting way of looking at it.
@Rm2046 - wow… that’s a heavy workload, I can understand why you had to do breathing exercises.
this was cute…i loathe Mondays…nothing worse than getting ripped out of bed by the alarm cloth on a monday morning.
@ElusiveWords - just 3 days but it’s ayt!
@ElusiveWords - Are you in good hands?
Ah, Monday anxiety, I know it well. To me, it’s both something I dread and look forward to (the depression of a too-short week ending, and the anticipating for a brand new week and the potential that comes with it). But I hope your Monday yesterday was a great one!
Hope you had a good Monday! I don’t like going back to work, but I sometimes miss work when I am not there, haha. Weird.
oh…i know the feeling…i get a pit in my stomach by late sunday afternoon…