Monday motivation for Tuesdays
Sun rises in the east and settles in the west. Moon phases from ‘new’ to ‘full’ and vice versa. A high tide peters out before feeling low and then moves in the opposite direction week in and week out. You bury a seed and a plant turns into a tree, then bears fruits which again has seeds worth burying. These endless cycles can be noted in the sentient as well as non-sentient beings. In a not-so-different fashion, we, the cursed millennials of the 21st century, dangle between weekdays and weekends. We assume to be living it up but are busy doing exactly today what we did yesterday. And while we are at it, we chuckle at natural orders like migration, hibernation, etc. — labeling those creatures dumb for following invisible rules. Despite our constant burps of inconsistency, we continue to believe that we understand something no other species is capable of: finding the correct value. Which, again, is a sham because we really don’t know the value of anything anymore. If I ask you how much does your shirt worth, you will give me its price tag. You don’t know what went into the making of the fabric, how much the farmers put in, or how much the labour cost factored, transport bill, and so on. In simpler words, you don’t know its value. The market tells us, based on the canons of historic iterations, and we accept it. Why? Because nobody understands (let alone, knows) better.
Anyway, the point being, we are fully incapable of seeing things for what they are. A classic example would be our treatment of Monday, especially the first half. We pour all sorts of blue-ish sewage on it, even though we know for a fact that Tuesdays are no different. Monday is associated with motivation as a sign of pity whereas Tuesday is associated with thoughts as a testament of hope. Strange world, stranger ways. I am over 33 and I am yet to find somebody more innocent and innocuous than Monday. In this spirit, let me change our value system a bit and chart out some Tuesday motivations for you.
Tuesday motivation #1: Today is yours to ruin. Don’t stop at anything.
Tuesday motivation #2: Thoda seh lenge.
Tuesday motivation #3: Don’t breathe deeply. Oxygen is injurious to death.
Tuesday motivation #4: Life is just another unrealized nightmare waiting to open her eyes.
Tuesday motivation #5: Be unconditionally and unapologetically. Society is already winning anyway.
Tuesday motivation #6: Don’t let others know that you’re dying inside. Refer to #1.
Tuesday motivation #7: Everything is redundant including your idea of today.
Tuesday motivation #8: Friday is barely 3 days away.
Tuesday motivation #9: Cheer up. It’s just another silly chapter in your unwritten autobiography of insignifiance.
Tuesday motivation #10: Thoda aur seh lenge.
Tuesday motivation #11: The world is not ending. Get used to it.
Motivated enough? Yes? Refer to #7. No? Refer to #11.
