MULLINGS
Easterine Kire
[dropcap]I[/dropcap] expect this piece could also be titled, “Why we love Fridays.” A good percentage of people I know have tweeted or posted their dislike, and even, downright loathing of Mondays. The same friends, joined by others also like to post their love of Fridays. These are just symptoms of a deeper malaise. We could pose the question, What is it about Mondays that you dread?
School?
Work?
Social commitments?Why do you dread work? That is a life defining question that should be attended to in more detail. If you find yourself dreading work, if you consider your job as mere drudgery, you should seriously consider changing jobs. Because if you hate your job, you will do your workplace more damage than good. You will do your job badly, you will shirk work and you will cost the exchequer money, since your salary has to be paid every month whether or not you do a good job.
The wider ramifications are that other people will suffer as a result of you hating your job. People travelling to the headquarters to get you to process their files, will have to wait longer than they anticipated. They will have to spend more of their hard earned money on hotel and food. The fact that you are discontent or dissatisfied at work will affect you psychologically, and all around you. It will also lead to you contracting some disease in the long term, because many diseases are related to your emotional and mental state of mind.
When all these facts present themselves, you really should stop at some point, and look at a job-change hard in the face. Do you really want to spend the best part of your life at a job you don’t like? Do you want to fritter your life away on long hours of unhappiness? A change of job sounds drastic, but if it is going to make your life so much more happy, and beautiful and satisfactory, why hesitate?
The side effects are all positive: your new-found happiness in your new job will make people around you happy. In other words they will welcome your company as opposed to the past when people studiously avoided you, because they did not want to hear you griping about your job again. You will be a blessing wherever you are placed. People will want to be in your presence because they come away feeling positive and recharged with good energy. In your happier state of mind, you will live longer. It will be more difficult for you to get any kind of disease, because your altered state of mind will so influence your inner organisms that they will function perfectly.
In our society we allow ourselves to be bound by the government job syndrome and working for a pension that gives us security in our old age. Nothing wrong with that, but how sad to go through life working at something you hate, and lose the ability to enjoy life. We live only once. If we can’t live it in the deep beauty with which it is supposed to be lived, what a great pity. We won’t pass by this way again, as a famous poet once said. To add to that, the Christian says, life is to be lived unto others. If you do not make the effort to live a content life, you are doing a disservice to yourself and to others and to life itself.
We humans are reasonable beings, at least, most of the time. If we dislike something, there is a reason behind it. Unearthing that reason and dealing with it could make the difference between just surviving, or living life as it was beautifully meant to be lived.
