Monday

Monday:  The first day of the week.  The day that many go back to work after a weekend of relaxing, or go back to school.

But what about Monday?  It can either be a good day or a bad day.

For the good day.  You are refreshed after a nice weekend, and you are bright and ready to hit the books or get to work.  You grab that first cup of coffee at your place of employment, greet your fellow employees and even share what you did over the weekend.

It is the beginning of a new week with new projects and even if it was hard getting out of bed and getting started, once you have, then you are ready and raring to go.  You have the ambition to tackle that new project or learning project and you are anxious to get it done before the end of the day.  There is something about starting off on a good Monday morning that helps you get motivated and stay motivated for the remainder of the week.

But what about the bad day.  It was hard to get up and get going, perhaps because you knew you had an unfinished project that you would be facing at work, or a hard test at school.  You might have overslept as you overdid on the weekend and still feel tired and sluggish.

But the worst part about a bad Monday is trying to find a solution or fix a problem that occured on Friday or over the weekend.   Car trouble, plumbing problems, appliance failures or any one of a number of things that seems like if they could go wrong, they do go wrong.

Then it is a constant race to try to do your work, fix the problem and hope that by the end of the day, you can go home with an easy mind.  If not, then your Monday goes on and on until the problem is fixed. 

So Monday is probably the most important day of the week.  It is the day that gets us started for what the rest of the week will be.  Sometimes we can control how it starts and other times we can't, but either way, it is always a Monday that seems to be the busiest and the most worriesome of all the days of the week.

I wonder if we traded Monday for a Wednesday if it would be better.  I doubt it as it seems Monday is the day that we have to face one way or the other and I hope that all the Mondays can be good days.