Meditation for December 1st, 2016
Tuesday is the Only Day One Can Live in the Moment
One of the common factors that all self-help, religious, and spiritual practices is living in the moment. There is one day a week that it is easier than others to live in the moment, and that is Tuesdays.
If you don’t work Monday through Friday, then you’re a weirdo and this meditation won’t make sense.
Wednesday
I believe the shamans in Mongolia refer to Wednesdays as “hump day” because it being the very middle of the week. This is when people get anxious about the week ending. They can see Friday in their near future and the week is all down hill from here.
Thursday
OMG! Tomorrow is Friday! How can anyone be able to pay attention to the moment when tomorrow is Friday?!?
Friday
It is impossible to focus on the moment until it is clocking out time, and then it’s trying to either recreate a really good time one had before or it is wishing there was something to recreate.
Saturday
This day has to be a few things:
- Productive – this is the day to do errands, yard work, picking up around the place, etc…
- Fun – Saturday needs to be filled with fun. After the productivity sesh, the goal is to have a perfect unforgettable experience.
- Relaxing – the week at work has been stressful trying to get to this day, so it needs to be relaxing. After productivity and fun, nothing needs to happen.
- Balance – if there is too much productivity, then Monday will suck extra hard because you didn’t get to relax. Too much fun and the laundry didn’t get done, and too much relaxation leads to a hopeless depresseion that only the sweet release of death can fix.
Sunday
This is where the relaxing morning blends into the terrifying afternoon/evening where the very near future, Monday, begins to creep up. Your weekend is disappearing and all the anxiety, fears, concerns, and dread of work takes over. Maybe try and go to sleep early, but the stress keeps you up as you picture that one email you’ll have to write over and over, but you keep picturing sending it with a huge mistake…oh god the alarm is gong off, it’s…
…Monday
You just remember what you did on the weekend. Everyone spends Monday telling their cowrkers what they did that weekend. They go over the Sunday TV shows that everyone watched to escape the very horrors of their mundane lives.
Tuesday
This is the only day that most people can live in the moment. They don’t have anything more to say about last weekend and it is too far away from next weekend to be able to be too focused on that, so all one can do is keep their head down and do the next right thing. Most people have made their lunches, so most restaurants aren’t overly busy. No one seems rushed or impatient. Everyone just seems resigned to a day that means nothing for anyone’s instant gratification.
Monday Holidays
Of course when a holiday closes banks on Monday like Labor Day, Tuesday becomes a Monday, but it is different because there are only four days in the week, so the pining for next weekend begins immediately, so there is no “Tuesday” that week. The weekend is spent having a bigger event like camping or some shit like that, so it was basically working. How many people come back to work after a long weekend saying they need a vacation for the vacation?
Holiday in other days
Last year Christmas was on Friday. This means at the least you have to work four days, but most people take Christmas Eve off, and will probably leave early in the 23rd if they even work that week at all, but New Years is the very next week, so you don’t want to blow your holiday wad on just the Christ birthday, but you’ll need the extra time to recoup from the huge amounts of alcohol consumption you’ll do on the eve.
The holiday becomes this forced contrived festival and therefore one is really unable to experience the present moment at all. The very capitalistic culture of the holidays negate that.
The “untraditional” work week
More and more people are working untraditional work weeks. The service and retail world don’t get weekends or holidays off. Only a few lucky people get to experience holidays with their families, but really they are running to the mall on Thanksgiving now, so now more people don’t get that holiday off anymore.
If you are dealing with customers on Friday, they will tell you to have a good weekend, but they are just rubbing it in that they get the weekend off and you don’t. You’ll be stuck behind a register while all your friends are at the river or skiing.
Take Tuesday off. As you walk around you’ll notice people a lot more in the moment and way more accepting of things. Tuesday is the most spiritual day of the week.