Instead of fighting the Monday Morning Blues (MMB) every week, I decided to give in to it. And, surprisingly, it feels good.
I grew up scorning this cliché as an excuse people use to not perform at work. I would never give in to it. So I thought. Work hard for 5 days and party harder over the weekend - that's been the motto all my work life and it worked just fine. Until today.
I had a great time over the weekend with my close friends who were in town. Watched inane movies, listened to high-class ridiculous shayari, chatted, ate lots of unhealthy food, played Pictionary, Lexicon, rock-paper-scissors, nail the thumb, and sang at the top of our voices until the wee hours of the morning. It still surprises me that none of our neighbours came pounding at our door asking us to shut-up (Or maybe they did and we were too drunk to bother). It has left me thinking of ways to get our neighbours worked up.
I am still not willing to admit that this was the HILTof all excitement possible, which is why the Monday morning blues (have endless capacity for such crazy things) . Quite frankly this is how I DECIDED to feel after waking up this morning. I realised that I don't feel like working at all and instead of taking the day off, chose to come to work. Now I am in office but have not yet started working. And don't see it happening anytime in the future of this day.
I have also come up with a great thesis topic that if one really wants to relax then it can be easily done in the workplace as well. We have very comfortable chairs, a high-speed internet connection, good food and then there are people who you can completely ignore and carry on doing nothing because they understand what MMB is all about
Just read up a whole lot of stuff on the Internet on how one can cope up with MMB and what one should or shouldn't do on a Sunday evening. I also read the studies which say that close to 80% people feel or 'sometimes' feel MMB. For the first time I am glad to belong to a majority who I can relate with. My own private survey shows that of the 9 people who just walked in, 8 of them groaned a greeting, complained about the weekend getting over, have gone for a coffee break and have entered tasks in their scheduler which kick-start tomorrow!
One of my able colleagues is taking a 'power nap'. And she has just walked in. Just so that you don't get the impression, let me say with pride that I actually work with a team which is super efficient. They are the most hard-working and productive bunch of guys & gals I have ever come across .
I also read that the impact of Monday morning blues can be devastating. That more people have heart attacks on a Monday morning than on any other day of the week according to a medical research.
So why bother beat the blues? If you ask me, I am glad to have Monday as the first day of the week. It lets me go easy, allows me to "get a feel of the place", schedule work for the next day, and get geared up for the rest of the week. So when I come to work tomorrow I'll probably be working hard and maybe too busy to even remember this .
As for now, I'm feeling very good, adequately refreshed and all set to start scheduling work for tomorrow. Once I return from a coffee break.
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