Mondays are always interesting. I’d find I could gauge how interesting they were going to be based on the response I got when I asked “how was your weekend.” It was a pretty direct correlation – the more interesting the weekend, the more difficult Monday was going to be. I think it was kind of like starting a car after it had been in the garage for a while. Your work brain was put to bed for a couple of days and starting it back up was harder if you’d really managed to enjoy yourself extensively.
Fridays used to be interesting as well, especially late Friday afternoons. We had a running joke that anything bad that was going to happen during a week began right after 3p on a Friday. Which of course made Monday all the more interesting. The point?
Maybe it’s like the telephone ringing in the middle of the night. Even if you’re not fast asleep, you get a little panicked when it happens and when you’re disoriented from sleeping it’s worse. The Friday crisis that faded away for 48 hours is the sudden jolt awake when you hit your desk on Monday. But in the words of The Hitchhiker’s Guide, DON’T PANIC. This is maybe the best advice of all time.
We’ve all been told to count to 10 when we’re mad. I think doing the same when we’re feeling the panic rush is important as well. Every new internet rumor proves that humans tend to feed off of one another’s emotions, especially that sudden sensation of fear. Does that sound like any way to start the week?
So today is just a friendly reminder to keep calm and carry on. You might have enough on your mind today so I’m not going to add to it. But feel free to add to mine and leave a comment!
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