Thank God it’s Friday?!
It occurred to me today about 2PM that for most of us there is something about Fridays? No matter how bad, difficult or challenging the week has been, around 2PM an anxious but good feeling of anticipation begins to grow in those of us who work the standard American work week. I have had a good and productive week despite the fact that I did not accomplish all I had planned. Nonetheless, it will be there Monday. So, maybe I can break it down and figure out what and why this phenomenon is….the entire experience ends up feeling like the short thrill of your favorite roller coaster.
It seems the two best parts of the Friday phenomenon is the after 2PM anticipation and Friday night. No matter how trying, long or difficult…or for that matter how good….when 2PM comes around (varies for all) I start to feel that good feeling…and it builds to its crescendo on the actual drive towards home. Maybe the thought of your time being yours…I call it being on Davis time! I do the things I need to do…if I want…or I do nothing…if I want. Maybe I have a jam packed weekend of obligations and commitments….fun or official….I am still on Davis Time! The Captain of my Fate!….answering to no one!…no powers that be!…no consequences unless I want them. Hold on? Wait…exempted and excluded from this freedom…this ship of which I am “Captain” did the Admiral in residence….My Wife…lol. However the beautiful mystery of the Friday Phenomenon is that in most cases everyone, even my “Admiral my Admiral” are basking in the seeming timelessness of the feeling….often too lost in the childlike excitement to give regard to my moment of rebellion….of freedom. Like children the night before their first visit to Disneyworld, it can barely be contained. After all on Friday night you still have the entire weekend ahead of you! The drive home is the nexus between the anticipation crescendo and the actual Friday evening! It is never better than this moment in time. Turn up the damn music! Sing out loud! It is all down hill after this moment. You can sleep in!, You wake up, whenever, on Saturday?! And what is the very first thought? The very first feeling? Shit!? My weekend is already half over?! And by Saturday evening…no matter how much fun…how much freedom….
….before you lay your head down on Saturday night it occurs to you….
…tomorrow is Sunday…and Monday follows Sunday!?…..and the countdown to Monday then begins!
Like your favorite roller coaster….or one of your first teenage sexual experiences…..
It is over before you know it and your not fully sure if you enjoyed it?!
Have a GREAT WEEKEND?!
Peace,
DD