Flipping Off the Monday Blues

Today is Monday and being the first day of the week, I can’t say its off to a great start. Monday always seems to get so much hatred because it is the first day back from the weekend and nobody wants to go to work etc. I have gotten used to waking up early on the weekends recently because I try to be productive by doing homework, cleaning, going to my job and then using any extra time to do the things that bring me happiness. In truth, I have never been much of a morning person, but I will add that today I woke up at an appropriate time so I wouldn’t be late for my University classes. Yet somehow, I found myself rushing to get out the door to catch my bus and then as I was locking up my apartment and stepping outside, I missed it.

However, situations like this don’t just happen on Mondays. They can happen any day of the week at any given time. Sometimes we can look past it instantly as it was just a slight mess up to our day and life goes on. Although other times it isn’t that simple. Subsequently, instead of shrugging it off, I began to feel defeated and very disappointed in myself because there were things I needed to get done at school and people I needed to speak with. This alone made me feel like I should’ve tried harder to get my butt out the door and that maybe I do not deserve to attend University if I am not trying hard enough to be there. University costs so much money and I cannot afford to be missing classes because I spent too much time getting ready in the morning.

For this very reason, I started asking myself the following questions: Do I deserve to attend university because I am missing classes? Am I being overdramatic and need to just pinch myself and move on? To the first question, yes. Just because I missed a day of classes does not mean I do not deserve this opportunity to become educated in post secondary studies. There are many people in the world who would jump at the chance to be educated, but that does not mean I do not deserve it because I missed my bus. Life happens and not everything goes as planned…end of story. As for the second question, I most definitely need to stop worrying about it because there are much bigger issues to stress about. This alone is a perfect reason to just let it go. 

I can not act like everything I do goes as planned 100% of the time and I am not going to punish myself for making a mistake by not being prepared. If everything was perfect all the time I would never know what it felt like for something to go wrong. I would not be as strong of a person nor would I be able to help and understand others who can relate. Therefore, missing out proves to be a good thing because it teaches us to take a breath, move forward, and to try harder next time. After all, we decide our future and pouting about our misfortunes isn’t going to fix them. Get up, try again, smile and conquer.

Happy Monday friends,

Written by Tessa R. Adamski