Conspiracy Of Mondays
Of late there has been a conspiracy of Mondays to shape and color time and events with a uh almost manic despair. That's the best you got!!!, I'm yelling at no one in particular, remembering back to when I had not the previous experience of it. I don't get very far on the puzzle and then its Monday again.
Yeah, I get that Monday-effect ("heeeeeeere we go again") even though my schedule hasn't been Monday-to-Friday for some time. Is it a way of "resetting" the mind, of accepting that the puzzle is unsolvable?
The origin of the week is unclear, though for our purposes Constantine institutionalized it in the West. The seven-day cycle goes back much further, probably as a more or less even division of the Lunar month. The Christian week starts on Sunday, commemorating the Resurrection, but we've come to treat that as the day of rest, which used to be Saturday (the Jewish Sabbath, now secularized as a day of play.) This leaves us with Monday as the "beginning" of the week. If a cycle is being observed all around you, you'll feel it, even if you aren't directly participating. It's important to connect small cycles, like the day or week, to larger cycles like the year, in order to give scale to the Universe, and define our place in it. Mondays may be tough, but can you imagine an ongoing linear time, without the repetition of the week? We'd be awful tired before it's over…
have a great time!!! EAT!!
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Of late there has been a conspiracy of Mondays to shape and color time and events with a uh almost manic despair. That's the best you got!!!, I'm yelling at no one in particular, remembering back to when I had not the previous experience of it. I don't get very far on the puzzle and then its Monday again.
- jimlouis 4-22-2003 12:24 am
Yeah, I get that Monday-effect ("heeeeeeere we go again") even though my schedule hasn't been Monday-to-Friday for some time. Is it a way of "resetting" the mind, of accepting that the puzzle is unsolvable?
- bruno 4-24-2003 5:40 pm [add a comment]
The origin of the week is unclear, though for our purposes Constantine institutionalized it in the West. The seven-day cycle goes back much further, probably as a more or less even division of the Lunar month. The Christian week starts on Sunday, commemorating the Resurrection, but we've come to treat that as the day of rest, which used to be Saturday (the Jewish Sabbath, now secularized as a day of play.) This leaves us with Monday as the "beginning" of the week. If a cycle is being observed all around you, you'll feel it, even if you aren't directly participating. It's important to connect small cycles, like the day or week, to larger cycles like the year, in order to give scale to the Universe, and define our place in it. Mondays may be tough, but can you imagine an ongoing linear time, without the repetition of the week? We'd be awful tired before it's over…
- alex 4-24-2003 6:19 pm [add a comment]
have a great time!!! EAT!!
- Skinny 4-25-2003 4:10 am [add a comment]