Hey there my friends...I was thinking about this over the weekend and I realized that as I have gotten older I don't really look forward to the weekends any more and it got me to thinking about what had changed and why I feel such a difference today about weekends. Another thing that has also changed is my perception of time. I think one of the reasons why when I was younger that I looked forward to the weekends was because I was because school took up so much of my time when I was younger. I am not sure why or how my perception changed but it did. Time seems to have speeded up the older I have gotten, and there never seems to be enough time in my day now.
Think about it this way when you were in high school you had enough time to get your homework done and still go out and do things with your friends. Now, what has changed? The length of the day hasn't changed, there is still 24 hours in a day. You usually spent 8 hours in school and you usually work an 8 hour shift at work. Yet, you don't seem to have enough time to do everything you need to do. So do you know what has changed? Your brain has changed your perspective. Time its self hasn't changed you have. As you age you feel and experience time differently. As your mind matures you start focusing on different aspects of life than you did when you were a youth. An adult worries and thier brains are perceive time differently.
I assure you when you get older time will seem to speed up and you will be surprised to find that your days and months seem to fly by. You may wonder why that is from time to time, but it is because you are focused on bills, work and family and not on yourself and the things that you need to accomplish such as homework. Adults have so many things that they have going on that they have to divide and spend time on each item. We learn and use time management skills to deal with the myriad of responsibilites that we have to deal with. As we get older our minds look and experience time differently.
Now, I dread weekends and the reason why is because I have so many things on my mind that I have to do and weekends throw my life out of wack. Businesses are closed and I can't get things done like I can during the week. Weekends used to represent free time and going out to the clubs and having fun. But today I have too many bills and tasks that I am needing to get done and the lack of money to go out. Once upon a time I loved hanging out at clubs and drinking. But as I got older I lost the desire to go out all the time and luckily I found someone who isn't a bar fly.
For some reason I look forward to the end of the weekend so that I can get back to the work week so that I can handle business and doctors appointments. Especially now that I have become disabled. Maybe the reason why I dread weekends is because I can't get my medical stuff accomplished. Also because they represent boring long days with nothing for me to do. However, I bet if I had the resources to go out and do things my perspective might change how I feel about them.
Another thing that has come to my attention is that as we age our priorities tend to change and we look at things differently than we did before when we were children. Now that doesn't mean that we cannot have a childlike mentality or even be childlike in our behavior. Once we reach our teenage years everyone of us wishes that we are older and we often express a desire to grow up faster than we are. Yet, each of us looks back at our lives at some point and wish that we had done things a little different. Or we wished that we had the knowledge that we have now back when we were younger. It is true that we have to face the consequences of our actions and choices. It is also true that the experiences we have and the paths that we have taken have molded us into the people we are today.
It is my belief that as we grow older and our responsibilites change and we experience more of life we look at things from the bias that we have gotten or the filters that were created by the choices we have made. I also think that where we are at in life also plays a part in how we judge and look at things. Just because I dread weekends doesn't mean you will when you get to be my age. Honestly I think if I were still healthy and had the same job or equivalent position making the same or better money than I was before my idea of weekends would be totally different.
Therefore to answer my question what happened to make me dislike weekends, I woudl ahve to say that it is because of my lack of resources and my financial situation. My health also plays a big part of how I feel and look at things today. Please remember that you can change your perspective and look at things from a different angle and it could turn your life totally around.
As always my hopes and dreams are with you,
Uncle B
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