Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.
~Bryant McGill~
Mondays are hyped, rushed, and deemed a day of all-round hustle. Anyone just resuming at his or her workplace can take a look around and see how much energy is present in the room/office. It's easy to tell that the energy is always high on Mondays, and all you have to do to see that is to take a look around.
However, this is also a day when many people are inclined to look more serious than they are, many would even fake being busy on a day like this, so people don’t perceive them to be lazy. So they fake a rush. Tbh, there is a lot that is attached to Mondays that can make it easy to fall prey to its psychological trap or hustle rush.
Monday is one of those collective performances that a lot of us participate in consciously or unconsciously.
While I was heading out this morning, there was a car that sped past us, with the way he was racing through the traffic you can tell he’s in some type of rush. It's one thing to be in a rush, it's another to navigate the road recklessly without caution.
Sadly, the car crashed into another tricycle that was not far from us. Luckily, no one died, but all those people he was racing through including us are now ahead of him after he was asked to park by the roadside so they could settle the issue without causing more commotion or traffic.
Due to how he was speeding from afar. Anyone can tell he’s at fault, which means he now has to pay for the damage done to the tricycle he just hit. The tricycle driver wasn't even having it good because all his passengers immediately left after the accident. We are all inna rush.
If you take a look at one of the days that have the most recorded number of accidents, you'll find out that Mondays are one of the days with the highest rate of motor accidents*
Nonetheless, I believe that almost everyone is in a rush on Mondays because it's the first day of the week, and it's good to have a good opening for the day, but that doesn't mean we should rush through everything to the extent of risking our life and health.
Being in a rushed state is one of the best ways to not be able to think clearly, and once you can't think, it'll be difficult to think through daily life obstacles and challenges.
For instance, if the driver who was in a rush was thinking, he would’ve analyzed a way to get to where he was going without having to put himself at risk of an impending death.
If he had broken a leg in the accident, I bet he would then become unable to get to that place he's so anxious to get to because he’ll have to be hospitalized, and we all know how that goes.
It's a new week, but we should understand that no matter how rushed and anxious we are about the day, it won't solve anything because the moment our minds are not in a calm and collected state of mind we are susceptible to all sorts of accidents be it mental or physical.
To tackle the day's challenge and get the week rolling we need a calm mind state to help us scale through without being at risk of not thinking straight, thereby making irrational decisions.
Until next time
Keep Calm & Experience Life to its fullest