Finding Joy in the Everyday: Redefining Our Weekday Perception.

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There are 260 weekdays in a year, and by the period an individual reaches the age of 35, they will have dedicated 24.7% of their life to employment or education. Weekdays might be easily written off as unavoidable inconveniences, yet many Americans fail to realize that your daily activities determine your entire existence.

The perception is that certain things are privileges, more important than money and food, such as liking your colleagues and peers, appreciating your home and work, and enjoying your life. Our appreciation for the everyday is diminished in a society where workers and students only think about the weekend. Sometimes it seems like we don't have enough time to pursue our passions as the days grow longer and busier. All of these activities need conscious effort: reading, creating, exercising, exploring, building.

But what exactly makes a weekend wonderful? Our weekends are when we get to sleep in, relax, and look forward to our activities with loved ones. Weekdays are perceived as inferior in compared to the weekend, which is the problem. Getting up early, varying up the daily schedule, and just finding ways to make the most of the workday by indulging in little pleasures are a few ways to incorporate the happiness of weekends into our days.

The hard truth is that living demands labor, and earning a living demands income. Without adequate money management, it can be difficult to attain balance. Though it's feasible to appreciate work even when one's perspective is clouded by habit, it's still doable. People can find happiness in even the most mundane daily activities by interacting with their coworkers, getting hands-on, and experimenting with new ideas. You don't have to suffer through something simply because it's necessary to do it. We are in charge of our perception and thinking, which govern our mood.

Our sense of self can easily be obscured by habit. It's comfortable, the habit. There is no chance of failure with this routine. However, discovering novelty and disrupting the usual throws us off balance. You can break up your typical day by trying new activities like sitting in a different seat in class, trying an unfamiliar restaurant before work, and commuting to work while paying attention to intriguing music or podcasts.

My personal experience leads me to believe that high school pupils are particularly affected by this problem. This is important because a lot of students drag oneself through the week, worn out, slogging through each day without making an effort to live each day to the fullest. High school kids have a culture where they detest going to class and are already looking forward to Friday on Mondays, the first day of the week. This bad habit of living only for the weekends, in my opinion, is something that we pick up in school and carry into adulthood.

We frequently scurry through our daily activities, suffer in traffic, lose ourselves in our work, and return home to our households worn out and empty at the close of the day. And even in the ease of our own homes, after all of this, we resort to our smartphones or other electronics as an escape. We hate going to work when we get up in the early hours and wish we could spend extra time in bed with our parents, spouses, and children. How many of us actually want to be at work, despite the fact we try our hardest to make the most of it?
All of this depletes our mental stamina, increasing our anxiety, sadness, and dissatisfaction with this stage of life beyond what is essential.

Even if they labor extremely hard, have small children, or feel that their job is only a means to an end, I think everyone has the right to take pleasure in their daily routine. I think it's feasible to appreciate the small pleasures in life, even when there isn't much spare time, and not only the weekend. I think it's crucial to determine how we will tackle the rat race as students and as professionals, even though everyone's solution will be different.

This weekend-focused society, in my opinion, is destroying our perspective and encouraging pessimism and burnout among our young people and working class. Weekdays are underappreciated and written off as duties, in my opinion, which wastes potential and makes our weeks seem bleak. If this changes, I think we will become more imaginative, successful, joyful, and overall better individuals to be around.