Weekends is a double edged sword, it gives you time to catch
up with your life, with your family or whatever pursuits you are chasing. A weekend also is a time for depression
because in this window, you get to realized just how shallow and trivial your
life is. After all your hard work, you
still amount to nothing. All your
material possessions seems to depreciate and even your relationship tends to depreciate
over time and in a stand still you are back where you started, from nothing.
Maybe nothing is not that bad, maybe when you embrace your
nothingness, something would come out of it or maybe one is just jaded and is
just feeling the usual threshold of depression.
Clinically, depression is extreme sadness – but you are not sad, just
tired.
Maybe that is the purpose of weekends, to unwind. To take a casual assessment of your life and
to rest. To recharge your energy and to
gather your depleted fortitude to plod along and survive another work week so
that when you reach the weekends, you are back where you started.
Or maybe, you need to find a diversion, a hobby, that is far
different from you work week pursuits to keep things in balance and in
perspective. Now I know why so many
people are into gambling, they have nothing better to do. They are bored with their life hence they are
gambling their lives away. To them, that
is the thrill, the thrill of losing everything regardless of the cost to the people
around them.
But our time here is limited; we do not even know when the day
of reckoning is going to come. Carpe
Diem, seize the day. It is precisely
because of the unknown day of reckoning that we need to strive and make the
most of our day. To make an impact on
the lives around us and to make a dent in this earthly plane.
I have been in the academe for almost a decade now, assuming
that under me I have personally educated a thousand students a year, that is
around nine (9) thousand students educated so far. And nine thousand individuals is not
something to sneeze at. Not all of them
will be a success but some of them will achieve more than I could possibly
imagine hence a casual assessment of one’s life is supposed to be a joyful
occasion. So instead of feeling down and
low during weekends, we need to celebrate life, that we are privileged to make
a contribution and that we really need the extra boost of energy to survive
another day, another week, another month and another year.
