Monday, June 06, 2005

How can a Monday be good?

Well....yeah! It's Monday after all! That cant be good. I mean school starts on a Monday. You start work on Monday. God started creation on Monday. So it's true that everyone hates Monday.

Well...see...I learnt something very important today. That it is right to hate Monday. Thats why it was invented and the concept of liking Monday is fundamentally flawed. It's as unnatural as flying pigs. So - the big question here is "How can Monday be good?"

It started as a typical Monday. Got to work early so that I could get a headstart with the stuff i need to do for the day/week/months ahead. There's alot of big changes happening and with all of these changes happening its important to stay on top of everything. Since you'd normally have the weekend to get drunk or just spend some time with your better half - in my case the PC or the X-Box, it's just fair that God punishes you by making you go back on Monday. But when I started my stuff today, I was pretty happy to know that the stuff I would struggle to get out on a normal day, came to me with surprising ease on a Monday. It's a strange phenomena really, but it works. Allow me to enumerate how:

  • Monday work is usually fresh work. So you're not chasing your tail.
  • Monday allows you to plan for the week ahead and i've learnt the hard way - that failing to plan is planning to fail.
  • Try this. Set up a feedback session with your boss on a Monday. Chances are that you'll get put in your place in such a dignified way that you'll just want to curl up and die in a corner. But if you tell yourself that you've got to prove the boss wrong, you will go out of your way and be twice as productive to do so.
Result - you're happy. Your boss is happy (in a Utopian world really) and your peers just cant wipe that grin off their faces. But what really works is if you have a Dilbert comic strip pinned to your desk and you thank the big G that you dont have to put up with Dogbert.

No...but honestly, 06/06/05 - Monday, could well be the turning point in my life. I know that i've learnt some valuable lessons this Monday.
  • The boss is always right
  • You're damned if you do and you're damned if you dont
  • If your boss has it in for you, nothing can save you
  • If you try to please your boss, you will fail
  • If you piss your boss off - you will die
  • If you die, your boss will not be happy and will drag you out of the grave to finish what you started.
  • You will never see heaven.
  • You've already gotten a taste of hell, so the afterlife and the underworld will not be something new.
So that brings me back to where we started. HOW CAN MONDAY BE GOOD?

Answer - it can't.

How could it? I tried looking for answers and I couldnt find any. So I tried making them up and look what came up!

Before I sign off for tonight, i'd like you to ponder on this - If God, being who he was with all that power and magic stuff and wisdom couldnt not make the world on a Monday, how can the lesser mortals do so? I mean, She/He is GOD afterall! She/He could have just made everything on Monday and we could have had a 6 day weekend!

But like I said - If the boss has it in for you, try as hard as you may, you're screwed.

Thats all folks. It's Tuesday tomorrow and i've got to go finish what I started.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

well for some odd reasons dude i can relate to what you have been through.

Couldn;t agree less. but i an just wondering that soon i'll have to read similar blogs for the entire week ;)

Anonymous said...

Good Show Arti

I am glad i am not in your position. But i am inclined to agree with Cipher as well :-))

Joe

Anonymous said...

Well for me, how Mondays start depends upon how Saturday has ended.

If it was my Proffesor telling me that I have to appear for a test on Monday, tha would surely be a chore for me.

But if Monday is the day I am to get that new game, if it's the day I get to have something that I have beenw aiting for, then that is something that will have me mark the hours till it's time to usher in the new week.

Am I rambling? Well yeah, smart people's blog always makes me do so! :)