It’s Friday…What joy! Right? I mean, today is going to be easy peasy, just because we are anticipating two days worth of freedom from schedules and deliverables and waking up early to work etc. Two days of doing things for us and our amusements. Two days of bliss…
It’s crazy how our mind starts to give way to the lightheadedness from just anticipating the weekend to come. Don’t they say that there is more joy in anticipation than in actually doing or having the thing we have been anticipating? I think that idea truly works in case of Fridays and weekends. Atleast, it does for me.
Because as soon as we are in the weekend, we are doing our weekend things, we are busy, and trying to cram everything in, rather than delighting in the freedom.
Doing the weekend takes away from delighting in the weekend.
This weekend looks promising in terms of weather. There is much to do. Spring cleaning inside the house, getting our yard and deck ready to hang out in, and the garden to have nutrients. Getting some quality family time over Mother’s Day dinner. Yoga Class. Dropping off my son places…yeah, it’s a busy one. I didn’t even realize how busy till I started listing it all here!
But I have to remind myself that it’s the weekend. That I want to chill and let go a little bit. So I am not stressed on Monday because I didn’t get a mental break. I also have to remind myself to spread out my tasks for weekly prep more, so I don’t have them piled up on Sunday night and I am overwhelmed like last week.
What I would really want to do is…
- That I read my book.
- That I watch Mad Men with my husband.
- That I immerse myself in my Yoga class on Saturday morning.
- That I catch a nap if I feel like it.
- That I have good conversations with my family.
- That I go for walks and admire the flowers in bloom everywhere.
So, you might have suspected, correctly may I add, that this post is more for me that for anyone. And that is the power of writing. It brings our thoughts and ideas from being buried inside of us out in the open for us to examine them, figure ourselves out, and remember what we really think.
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