Invoke in your mind the obligatory guy sitting behind a table drinking coffee at a college campus. The table has a large banner spanning its length draping over its edge. It states, “change my mind”…
How do people like Sundays more than Mondays?? It’s just a day where good things end. The weekend is over. People are getting ready for work. There are rarely any gatherings, parties, events, etc… Everything closes early.
- You have to go to sleep early… No different than a weekday
- You have to think about work the next day and prepare for it, like a weekday
- You have a FULL 5 days of work ahead, unlike a weekday
- It is a workday where you get no work done, unlike a weekday
Sundays are like the moment before you jump in the pool. Mondays are like when you are already in the pool and it’s not that bad (cold). Plus when it’s Monday, you are already well on your way and before you know it, you have just 4 more days of weekday left.
Sundays are like Christmas evening. Bland, stale, out of place, not fun; the holidays is over. Christmas eve is better than Christmas day.
Sundays are akin to Splenda, Sweet&Low, Stevia… Saturdays and Fridays are sugar. It is a fake weekend.
Weekends are supposed to embody the true essence of the meaning of ‘Weekend’, the total and complete absence of any and all work before and after; the deletion of the word “work” and erasing it’s existence in concept, practicality, and memory in totality. You cannot treat Sunday like you do Saturday.
In my opinion, the lunch break during a Friday knowing that you’re about to head off into the weekend is true bliss.
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It’s colloquially known as the “Sunday scaries”
Ageee. I love Sunday morning but dread Sunday evening so much
Good things ending is better than bad things starting.
gloomy sunday – billie holiday aka Szomorú Vasárnap – composer Rezső Seress that created the ‘hungarian suicide song’ would agree
I work 6 days a week with two jobs…frequently working doubles 8 am-10 pm… Sundays are my day to do nothing… I can sleep in, walk my dogs, binge TV in bed or on the couch… read a book, etc.
Sundays are for whatever I want… and yeah, it’s a bummer because Monday is right around the corner… but that is not Sunday’s fault! I love Sundays 🙂
If you always focus on what’s to come rather than what is currently happening you’ll never have any peace. Happiness is enjoying the passing of time. Tomorrow will always loom on the horizon, but today is not that day.
>There are rarely any gatherings, parties, events, etc
I don’t even know what you are talking about? Sunday is probably the single day where the most get togethers happen.
Cause I literally don’t work on Sunday
Welp, about 10 years ago I planned for the Big Nothing on Sundays. Excepting the odd hockey commitment for the kids, I started actively doing nothing on Sundays and it’s been great.
This is actually a good post. An argument can be made. A four-day workweek could possibly quell this notion (if people had either choice of Monday or Friday off).
I quite literally do not think about work until I get to my desk Monday morning. The first half an hour of my day on Monday is trying to remember what I was doing on Friday. I enjoy my Sundays
I work Sunday through Thursday, so Sunday is my Monday
Just another manic Sunday.
No? You don’t work on sundays so
I love Sundays, especially now that it’s getting nice out. Get up early and be productive outside in the yard. Around lunch time invite some friends/neighbors over, get the grill out, and have a couple of beers enjoying the weather.
Step 1 – Get a job you don’t hate
Step 2 – develop hobbies you enjoy on the weekend
Sundays are great!
The hottest take here is that Christmas evening is boring! Best part of the holiday as I age!
Sundays can be a bit of a pain but honestly the day I dread the most is Friday myself.
Majority of the people at work only work in office Tues-Weds-Thurs, so come Friday it is like pulling teeth getting ahold of people for information yet everyone wants their work request done before the end of day and before the weekend.
Tuesdays are worse than Mondays.
Nah Tuesdays are the worst
Sunday night football makes it suck less though
So…you’re really rolling up with “A day where I don’t have to work and can dictate how my time is spent is worse than a day of work”? I guess you’re in the right sub
You just have to learn and let go of the negative feelings on Sunday. Enjoy it while it lasts and stop thinking about tomorrow.
Agree in part on Sundays. I’m retired now, but still get a little down around 4 on Sundays.
Used to get really depressed Sunday afternoon.
>You have to go to sleep early… No different than a weekday
Sure but you get to stay up on Friday, no different then a weekend. So this cancels out.
>You have to think about work the next day and prepare for it, like a weekday
Not really. The only real prep you need to do is go to bed like you have to get up for work.
>You have a FULL 5 days of work ahead, unlike a weekday
Ok?
>It is a workday where you get no work done, unlike a weekday
It’s not like a workday at all. If you treat it like one, of course it’s going to suck. Stop treating it as such.
Sundays only suck if you let them suck. Stop letting them suck.
“Sundays are like Christmas evening” stated as a negative is a wild opinion.
I would rather think about work a little while I do fun stuff than actually be working.
I’ve heard that this is a common phenomenon. Around 3 or 4 pm on Sunday, you start realizing the weekend is about over and start dreading Monday. I agree with OP, the Sunday evening dread is worse than the actual Monday.
Sunday is my lazy day. Even Saturday has chores. But Sunday, I do literally nothing.
Your attitude is ‘sunday scaries’ and what you are doing is wishing away an entire half of your weekend
That’s only after 5 pm. You can still sleep in, you can day drink, you can go see a movie and it’s still sunny out when the movies over.
Once 4pm hits on Sundays, work is on my mind nonstop until I go into the office the next day.Thanks Sunday Scaries
Sundays are ruined by the proximity to Monday is basically what you are saying. One thing you said was about there being no big events on Sunday. That isn’t true for everyone. For me, lots of Sundays have big events. I am looking forward to next Sunday, as I am going to a big Hurling match, as I often do on a Sunday. On the Sunday after that, I am going to a big Gaelic Football match, another thing I often do on Sundays. In the following Sundays I will be going to more Gaelic Football and Hurling matches. So between those two kinds of events and elements that go with them, like meeting friends, a lot of my Sundays are brilliant. I am sure plenty of other people have special things to do on Sundays too.
I actually like Monday evenings once work is done. It’s the farthest you will be from the dread of the next Monday.
You’ve gotten back into the routine and have made a good start on the week. So, oddly, it feels fairly free.
I mean, it’s no Thursday, Friday, or Saturday. But I agree that it’s better than Sunday evening.
You gotta live in the moment, not the next day… might as well worry Saturday about how you’re going to feel Sunday about what’s going to happen Monday..
Wait, you guys are getting weekends off?! -every foodservice/retail employee
Okay take my upvote
You seem to put too much value on anticipation.
Sure I’ve had the ‘Sunday Scaries’. I’ve also experienced plenty of events where the anticipation outweighed the event. That’s not my entire outlook on every event in life.
Sundays are nice, slow pace, family days. I get a lot of visiting and family bonding. I also get to eat a lot of good food compared to the rest of the week.
If you have to think about work and think about work like a weekday. It’s at minimum the same as as a weekday, but Sunday has the bonus of you not actually working, which makes it better.
That’s 2 negatives and 0 positives for weekdays. 2 of the same negatives and 1 big positive for Sundays, that means Sunday wins
Sure, sometimes I get the Sunday night blues in the evening, but if your whole Sunday is that miserable, that’s on you.
We go out for lunch, go adventuring, visit friends or family, sometimes cleaning, hair cuts, shopping etc. Same as we would on a Saturday except we just go home and to bed earlier. There is plenty to do even when the shops are shut.
Do things on Sunday. Go out for a bike ride or run. Go to a fair or festival. Go to an early dinner with people. The dread you feel on Sundays is from having nothing better to occupy your mind.
i usually go out drinking on sundays and have a great time
This is just a take for people that like the idea of things more than they actually enjoy things.
Agreed. This is why I don’t go to church: because Sundays are when I already have a dwindling amount of time to do the things I want to do. I don’t want to blow more of them in church.
I also don’t go to church because I’m an atheist.
I used to feel a bit down on Sunday because the next day is a workday, but after a while, I started to appreciate Sundays again. Even though I tend to do some chores on Sunday (laundry, and sometimes vacuuming), it’s still my day off. I tend to prepare for work that evening, so basically I still have the whole day to myself.
But what do you mean by “it is a workday where you get no work done”? How is Sunday a workday?
Also, I’ve been to a good number of gatherings and get-togethers on Sundays..
take my upvote and never come again because mondays are universally the worst
I do t get it. Sunday is part of the weekend you apparently spend all week looking forward to. Enjoy your day off, be in the moment.
Right now, I work Friday through Sunday, so Sunday is my favorite day of the week, with Thursday being my least favorite. But I will share your sentiment if I ever go back to working during the week again.