Mondays Are the Friends We Make Along the Way

What is so unusual about Mondays, and why is it actually a force for change?

BY GABRIEL MATIAS CASTILHO

Oh, Mondays. We all have some sort of relationship with this day of the week–though most people just dread its existence. Never have I ever heard anybody say that what they feel about Mondays is bliss and excitement, and although I can understand this sentiment, I also deeply reject it. Weeks are cyclical, and Mondays act as the transition between the end of the cycle and its beginning (though the Christian calendar would say that Sundays are the ones that start the week). To get to the feeling of excitement for the weekend, you had to have come from somewhere. That somewhere is where all the change starts. That somewhere is Monday. One can think of Mondays as a morning that is full of work to do, and weekends as the party at night that culminates in a good night of sleep. Understandably, party nights are much more memorable than work shifts or homework assignments, but if you do not enjoy those preceding activities, how can you be sure your body and mind will be ready for a party later at night? The phrase “the real treasure was the friends that we made along the way” is well-known for taking the spotlight out of the beginning and the end and giving it to the process–the middle, the friends we made along the way. Mondays are the friends we make along the way, and we should value them more, because without them, how would we survive?