The month of October is close to an end and what a loooong month it’s been… away from home n time seems to crawl by… I don’t think I’ve ever looked forward to time flying by this much.. it’s been a childhood trait in me to always look forward to the weekend..n after all these years, it hasn’t changed one bit.. I’ve always worked 5 days a week – Monday to Friday.. so it’s no surprise that I really cherish my Saturdays and Sundays… Saturdays especially – they are always no-work days.. just relax and enjoy the feeling of not having to run to school or college (6 yrs ago) or to work (now)… no worrying about deadlines, meetings and the ever present need to keep bettering yourself..
So, this is what Saturdays are for.. one day just for remembering what you are , what you like and what makes you happy.. this is the day I spend doing everything I can’t do over the week.. be it reading, visiting friends.. watching movies.. or just lying on the couch watching tv.. n I should say retail therapy comes really close to this indulgence, if you don’t have the luxury for having a day for yourself.. I really enjoy shopping.. anytime and anywhere.. when I came to understand myself a little better, I realized the kind of happiness I derived from this otherwise mundane activity of blowing up money.. if you leave me by myself and I do not have anything constructive to achieve, I end up buying something.. sometimes it’s almost like I shop just coz I have time to kill..n it doesn’t have to be clothes n shoes n bags, it can very well be groceries and veggies.. n mind you, I’m not buying stuff only for myself all the time.. I buy for others too (generous me ;)):)… at the end-of the day, it doesn’t matter that I’ve spent a little more of hard earned money on something the others or I could probably have lived without, it just made my day.. it is this feeling of pampering yourself that’s important… you will never understand this, until you really do it.. being in our dog-eat-dog world where you end up having to please the entire universe to get where you want to be, you lose perspective of your own self… in the race to succeed, you sometimes put yourself so far behind, that you don’t remember that it’s just not enough for take care of everything and everyone, you need to take care of yourself too..
Indulging has its own advantages.. take a little time out for yourself and you suddenly have time and the drive to do a lot more… it leaves you at calm and peace with yourself, makes you cheerful and enthusiastic… you feel happy.. you tend to connect better with people and makes you extremely positive.. now, for me Saturdays and retail therapy work, but you may need something completely different like a little solitude to listen to music or read a book which you bought ages ago or just take in some fresh air walking around the block.. whatever it may be, you have to believe that this doesn’t add up to the stress that you are already reeling under but strive to push a little of that strain off your shoulders.. I know friends who go to the beauty salons not only to look better but to feel better coz they are there to pamper themselves and they really love it..
So find our own Saturday or rediscover your long lost hobbies, and learn a new meaning to bliss… Cheers…
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