For a long time a draft titled "Mondays" has been waiting for me to finalize it in my Journaly draft posts. And today as I was going trough my half-completed entry ideas - trying to get inspired by them - I came across this. And regarding the fact that today is actually 'Blue Monday', it seemed like a good idea to finalize this post today. What could be a better occasion to write about feelings surrounding Mondays than the day which was officialy declaired to be the sadest day of the year?

Generally speaking, Mondays always had a pretty bad reputation. Since school days Mondays meant going back to mundane tasks and putting an end to all the fun stuff that the weekend represented. Basically the weekend starts on Friday afternoon, and Monday starts on Sunday evening - because the weekend only lasts until your mind isn't full of work related tasks and Monday isn't slowly finding it's way to fill out your mind with all the anxiety and stressfull thoughts. The moment you first think of setting the alarm clock or about what you have to do the next day, the weekend is immediatly over.

But I was wondering for quite some time - does it always have to be like this? Or have I ever experienced a time in my life when I was not feeling this way? And the answer is that in my memories I can go back in time and recall Mondays that I was actually looking forward to. Monday in itself cannot ruin my mood, I can even feel excited about all the opportunities and upcoming events that the next week holds for me.

So the key might be what Monday represents for each and every individual. Do you have to go back to a workplace where you don't enjoy being at? Or does it stand for deadlines and an unrealisticly challenging workload? Or is it just the fact that you've enjoyed the weekend so much you don't want it to come to an end? Probably a thousand other reason can exist. But still the general conclusion is that Monday sucks. Or let me put it this way - it sucks when you have to return to something you are not excited about.

So since today is Blue Monday, I wanted to mention how funny it is to me that the most depressive day of the year, must be a Monday by definition. Actually it's always the third Monday of January, and their is quite an interesting and funny formula on which the exact calculations are based on. The formula takes into consideration the bad weather, the time that had passed since Christmas ended, the time that had passed since our new year's resolutions failed and also the debt accumulated by buying Christmas presents for our loved ones. So basically the theory behind is that since we have spent all our money on Christmas presents and the holiday season is over and also we have failed to change our habits as drastically as we had wished to do - now we can easily fall into depression.

And it's somewhat interesting. But to me this year started out with a huge positive change in my personal life and even though this day should be by definition the saddest day of the year with all the conditions given and scientifically proven, I feel like this is one of my happiest days in a long while.