If I look back in the past few years …I find a drastic change in the culture…lifestyle of people around including me also. Suddenly the whole society became very stressed out. Every next person one meets is battling with stress…and at alarming levels…and i I don’t deny a certain amount of stress is required and in a way is a healthy motivator to get things done …but yes only a certain amount.
With this scenario what I find in the past 4-5 years a stupendous amount of pubs and eateries have opened up…the meaning of weekends became identified with visiting one of these …to chill out, to vent out …to take a break from the accumulated stress of the whole week and to face the coming week. My question here is are these just forced breaks as in following the herd …the norm now a days being that going out to eat and break a leg in discs will get back your sanity…or does it really help in achieving the needful…and yes I am one of them…I find myself asking Suyash as the weekend starts approaching “so where to go this Saturday..?”
Now what triggered me to question myself am I taking these breaks as kind of social enforcements or do I really want to do this only. Last Saturday I was called at my younger ones school to join a book club… a platform to meet book enthusiasts , know what each one is reading…exchange notes kind of thing. There were 30 parents invited but only 6 turned up. We had a almost one and half hour discussion on reading habits , books read previously and current read. Evening we had to go to a book launch where the talk with the author was very enriching and engaging…and the day was ended with chit chat with a friend at home…may sound quite normal to many or boring also.
That day when I retired for the night…i had a wide grin on my face…when asked by Suyash why this big smile…I said I feel kind of very relaxed…internally joyous…job satisfaction kind of thing…to sum up I spent the day doing what I actually enjoy…it is not that I don’t like going out …party…but this was like my kind of day.
And this lead me to thinking where are the weekends gone when we used to sit back at home spend time with children…or maybe quiet chit chat sessions with friends…or just watch an old movie…listen to music…no rushing…no bookings to be done…no dressing for the crowd…no spending time on where to go today …which new joint to try. The thing we do to lighten us up are really what we want or these are just breaks we have forced our minds to take. It is not I don’t watch movie or read books now…but generally on weekends only if there are no other plans. Why don’t we or infact I plan a Saturday for just staying at home and doing “my” things.
I would like ,wish…want everybody to take a break …sit and think what actually will relax him/her…do things which you actually love…and not because the whole world is doing something…to take a break from our routine lives we should not end up taking same routine breaks …think guys…!… I am trying to break away from cliched Saturdays …please you try too…!