Weekends (April 14, 2012)

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.