The Weekend Dilemma

Day 119 / 366

I’ve been writing blogs for about 5 years now, and I think once every year I would have surely written about how disappointed I get with how my weekends go.

Most of us working-class folks live from weekend to weekend. Friday nights are the best, and Sunday evenings are downright depressing.

I remember how excited I was when I found out that I would be getting both Saturdays and Sundays off when I joined college. Back in school days we just got Sunday. The 2-day weekend we have now seems smaller than the 1 day we got as kids.

These days, there’s so much to accomplish that I constantly feel like I’m falling behind. During the week, I make grand plans for a productive weekend to clear my backlog. However, when the weekend actually arrives, exhaustion takes over, and I persuade myself that I should use the time to relax and unwind.

I got almost nothing done this weekend. And there was a lot that I had to do. And as it's coming to an end, I am once again thinking that I should work extra hard during the week to have my weekends free.

I know that I am operating at less than 50% efficiency these days. I could manage my time so much better. I’ve just gotten a bit lazy. But I want that to change now. I want to create a timetable and follow it, create a to-do list of all the pending tasks, and finish them during the week itself so that I can rest on the weekend without feeling any guilt.