Mondays. A weekly taste of Hell. After a fantastic weekend, you have to return to school and go through 5 days of time wasting school. Monday, to some, goes by like a blur. They don't retain anything said that day and the whole time their eyes are out of focus and they are tired. SOME people actually ENJOY mondays. Don't ask me how and don't ask me why, but these people DO exist. They find joy in starting the week productively and look forward to a week of torture, I MEAN, school. Others, although they function alright, dread every second of the day. Refusing to cooperate, working poorly and accepting mediocrity are common symptoms. The case that I suffer, is feeling like the day lasts 30 hours and that each class is a little harder, each block is a little longer, and each recess is a little shorter. I believe that the most common is the first case that I described. The first step to fighting mondays is to recognize which case you suffer from. We'll talk about fighting the Monday Curse more in-depth later on in the post.
Does your monday morning go a little something like this????
BEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEP!!!! Crap. It's 7:30 already??? Oh, I'll just press snooze 1 more time. BEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEP!!!! Crap, It's already 7:35??? Oh, mom will just wake me up when I have to get up. "HONEY!!!! WHY AREN'Y YOU UP!!! YOU'LL BE LATE!!!!!" Crap. It's 8 already. I guess I have to get up.
Then, you'll get up, decide what to wear, go to the kitchen, help yourself to whatever is easily accessible for breakfast, do the homework that you were supposed to do last night and then head out the door. You get to school, and while still 80% asleep, you survive (somehow) and then finally get back home and plop down on your bed until you have to do something else.
IF your monday morning does go like that (which I am assuming it does) then you suffer the Monday Curse. Don't worry, almost everyone suffers the Monday Curse. SOME people found a way to break the curse, and I am VERY jealous of those people.
Everyone has a different opinion on mondays, and here is mine
1) TORTURE!!! After 2 days of hibernation, the first day back to a regular week is always the hardest. Sometimes if I have a really busy weekend, like if I was filming, doing extra karate classes or babysitting, I'm absolutely EXHAUSTED on mondays
2) LONG!!!!!!!! Don't you think that on mondays, even though school lasts only 6 hours, it feel like it lasts 30 hours? And at short recess it always feels like it should be lunchtime. Even though math ALWAYS (and I mean ALWAYS!!!) seems long, somehow, on mondays, math seems even LONGER. Unfortunately, though mondays make the boring "educational" stuff longer, they manage to shorten the precious time of our already painfully brief recesses :(
3) Boring. Everything is a blur. Because it takes too much effort to concentrate or pay attention in class, 9 out of 10 people choose to zone out. When zoning out, you don't really do anything productive or fun, so it gets boring. It's still a better option then applying yourself
I have many more things to say about mondays, but if I wrote them all, you'd still be reading even after you graduate. I honestly could go on, and on, and on, and on...
HOW TO FIGHT THE MONDAY CURSE
What I do, is on saturday, instead of staying up super late and waking up super late, I go to bed at around 10 or so, and then wake up at 9 or before. It reduces most of the shock of waking up early on monday and waking up early usually leads to going to bed a little earlier, making it easier to drag yourself out of bed the following morning. Once you wake up and go to school, there's still 6 hours to survive. It helps when you have something to look forward to on mondays. Packing a really awesome lunch is a super easy way to make mondays a bit more bearable. You can do so by packing lots and lots of chocolate, or using WHITE BREAD instead of that gross, seedy "bread" most of us have. You could also bring a thermos full of your fave hot drink, like hot chocolate:) The upside to using a thermos is, that if anyone asks what you have, you can just say water so people won't bother you for some of your drink.
You can also have something to look forward to, by making monday the day you don't plan anything so you can go home and lie in bed (you can do homework in the morning...)
Another way to make mondays a bit more bearable is to feel fantastic. If you're like me and can't function in the morning, organize your stuff and pick out your outfit the night before. When you wake up in the morning after your get dressed, take some extra time and effort into your breakfast. When you eat well in the morning, usually you feel better throughout the rest of the day. I know it's ironic that I would talk about eating breakfast, because if you know me at all you would know that I almost ALWAYS skip breakfast. Don't tell my doctor, he's lectured me before on eating breakfast regularly...
I know that the majority of people reading are thinking, "What the hell? I don't have to organization of attention span to follow through on this stuff!! I'm way to groggy in the mornings, especially monday mornings!!!". Am I right?? Probably. Guess what? I THINK LIKE THAT TOO! These tips are something that almost no one has the time, patience or focus to follow through on. My REAL advice is the following.
Don't make a big deal out of monday. DON"T GIVE IN!!!! Monday is conspiring against you. IT WANTS TO MAKE YOU MISERABLE! Just follow these instructions: Wake up. Bring chocolate to school. Eat a bit of it at recess and a bit at lunch. Go home and do nothing. That's what I do and so far, I haven't been maimed and I'm still alive:) Even though it seems too simple to make a difference, it does. It truly does.
This time, I don't have green tea, I have a cookie. SOOOOOO cookie in hand, I leave you, yearning for the next post. If there is one. lol
that was really long but super awesome!
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