An Argument For Mondays

It seems everyone hates Mondays. Okay, maybe it doesn’t seem this way. Maybe, maybe everyone really, really hates them. For some reason, I don’t fall into this crowd. Every time a Monday is close it feels like a second chance, a third chance, or a new time to allow myself to grow. This day of the week is my favorite day out of the entire seven days. It’s the start of something new. It’s the time we start again, whether at work… or, at home at work. Everyone hates Mondays. Everyone hates Mondays, but I don’t.

Why hate the beginning of something that can be fresh, new?

It’s the reincarnation of a week.

It’s the world pressing the restart button.

If we look at this day through a different lens, maybe we can learn and understand that it’s a good thing, and that treating it differently can help lift us rather than perpetuate the cycle of depression we each seem to have fallen into.

Mondays are the start of a new week. Yes, they might be when we go back to work after the weekend. Yes, they might be part of the new grind, but that grind can become whatever you want it to be. You can either take it in stride, or you can fight against it, complaining, and kicking and screaming the entire way. If you give in, and not give up, you can enter the void with a brave face, and make this day the best day of the week.

If this is the world’s restart — from work to home, from home to work each day —, then can you imagine what you can accomplish when you realize what’s possible on a fresh restart? 

It’s like… this day gives you a choice each week: you can either get lost in the grind, or you can choose to press refresh on your life every Monday. Every time you press the refresh button, that’s you deciding to do something kind to yourself. You’re allowing all of the previous weeks to melt away, in order to pay attention to the here and now. 

When you pay attention to the idea of a fresh start, doesn’t that alleviate at least a little bit of the anxiety in your chest? Yes, you do have to go to work, but you can look at what you do with the mindset that it only has to suck as much as you let it. When you concentrate on how much you hate Mondays, what does that train you to do? It trains you to hate them more.

When you concentrate on the idea that they can each be a fresh start, what does that train you to do? It trains you to be grateful for every Monday. Once you start being grateful for the most hated day of the week, what’s possible? You have now given yourself a refresh, and you can do that every single starting day. You can enter these days with an open mind.

You can enter them with hope — hope that you can live each month with this idea that every Monday is a fresh start.

When you think about that, doesn’t that feel better than complaining about something you hate, and teaching yourself to hate it more and more and more and more? When you train yourself to do that, what you dislike will grow into what you hate and what you hate will grow into what you abhor. It’s a neverending cycle that perpetuates itself by how you look at a certain time, or day, or year. You will become an angrier, more depressed version of yourself because of how you look at the start of a week.

Allowing yourself the freedom to say, ‘Hey, this doesn’t have to suck if I don’t want it to,’ can teach you that one day, not only holds the power of peace, but also holds the power to destroy you if you let it. If you don’t let it, then you can allow it to heal you. 

Yes, entering the void is scary. It’s the void, but that’s what time is. It’s the idea that you can’t always know what’s going to happen. Keeping a fresh outlook on life will help lead you through the hard times, and every moment you don’t gripe about a new beginning will help lead you through change. Change is the hardest part of life, but allowing yourself to enter the void of time with hope instead of grievance, will make you more flexible. The more flexible you are, the more you can fight through those hard times.

All of this because you learned the Mondays are like hitting a refresh button on your life. Keep hitting refresh, and teaching yourself that anything is possible if you allow it to be possible.

Who knows?

Maybe, just maybe, Monday will become your favorite day of the week, too.