Monday 12 November, 2007

“Monday Blues”, phenomena that came into my notice very recently. I mean the thing was happening on me from the day I had joined my work, but I just didn’t come across the word. Infact I just didn’t smell out the reason behind what was happening.
For the ignorant, I would just flush ur brain with some light. Monday blues is the laziness you feel to get to work on a Monday morning after a lovely week end. You might have experienced this all through your life, never knowing it is not just what you experience, but the entire world has similar problems!
For me, it has always been there. On Mondays, I never step out from office. It is not that I will not, but it just happens that some how or the other, by God’s grace no client meeting comes up. May be even they are also experiencing the Monday Blues. ;)
Monday mornings are usually dragged through with kicks from the boss, making the work to move bit by bit.
If the week end is spent some were interesting, the blue would be in full bloom! Everything just stops working.
Questions are many,
1) Does Monday blues happen only because u does not enjoy your work?
2) Is there any solution?
3) More questions were there, but Monday blues is affecting my brains as well, am unable to think more.

Some magazines have commented on Monday blues like this

Business Standard
Perhaps some Osho insights can help change the way we work.
The basic question is, do you enjoy your work?
Do you work wishing you could do something else? Is your work a necessary evil -- to earn a living or to fulfil ambition?
1. What and how What you do is not important, it is how you do it. Whatever you do, do it with deep alertness; then even small things become sacred. You can clean the floor like a robot; you have to clean it, so you clean it.
But it could have been a great experience; you missed it.
You cleaned the floor and that would have cleansed you. Clean the floor full of awareness; be luminous with awareness.
2. Remember yourself
One thing has to be a continuous thread: remember yourself.
While walking, say, "I am walking." While sitting, say, "I am sitting."
And feel the shift in your awareness. There will be a sudden spark.
3. Are you a perfectionist? Beware! What counts is being total, not perfect. This brings out the best in you. The very idea of perfectionism drives people crazy.
The perfectionist is bound to be neurotic. S/he cannot enjoy life till s/he is perfect. And perfection never happens, it is not in the nature of things.
Life is imperfect. Only death is perfect. Totality is possible, perfection is not possible.
There is a huge difference between perfection and totality. Perfection is a goal for the future, totality is an experience now. If you can get into any act with your whole heart, you are total. Totality brings wholeness, health and sanity.
The perfectionist forgets about totality. There is a big gap between how s/he is and how s/he wants to be.
And, of course, change can't happen now, it is always tomorrow or the day after. So life is postponed.

I didn’t find much sense in what is written here though I have copied it down.

You might not find the same thrill and excitement in this blog of mine, unlike my previous ones. Given the fact that today is a Monday, this clearly proves the Monday blues factor affecting me.

2 comments:

Anish said...

da i used to experience something called as tuesday, wednesday, thurs, fri and sat blues. amazingly sat blues comes only twice a month hehe

Renjith said...

hahah.... even i have the same dude, but lets call it in different names, Tuesday whites, Wednesday yellows n stuffs... i wud contribute a blog to each describin the phenomenah behind...
the stuffs all r some or the other version of Laziness, L1, L2, L3 etc... its just that Business Standard journalist cudnt find proper topics to discuss that they invent stuffs like this, and get some idiotic psychiatist and bloggers like me talking..... ;)...