PURELY A MATTER OF RELEVANCE - MONDAY IS PURELY A MATTER OF RELATIVITY

The weekend has come to a close. You've enjoyed what little free time you had from the moment you escaped your 9-5 Friday afternoon, all the way through watching your favorite Sunday night TV programming. For the folks that work weekends, Saturday and Sunday are just another notch in your ongoing saga of mundane, and for that I apologize. Yet still I can imagine even you are affected by the banality of the dreaded Monday morning. You have the entire work week in front of you and the weight of it all seems to be an unbearable burden that you will not escape until the illusive Friday comes barreling around the corner. You've transformed your Tuesday, made it up and over the hump of Wednesday, threw back beers while Instagramming your throwbacks on Thirsty Thursday, and now, thank god; IT'S FRIDAY.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Sound familiar? I know you have all seen the meme boasting that your life is meant to be more than just paying bills and death. Which although it sounds like great advice, it's not necessarily true.

Let me explain.

If your hobbies include watching TV, playing video games, and mostly spending your time not leaving your home, that is the life you have crafted for yourself. If you have a job that you rely on to pay your bills, pay for your extracurricular activities, and have a little something left to save, you have designed a lifestyle that balances itself on you paying your bills and waiting for the icy grip of death to slip around your vital signs. This does not mean that your life cannot contain more, but please don't act surprised that your boredom has become just as much a part of your life as your daily grind is.

Life, reality, and existence in general is all based on perspective. Everything we do, everything we see, touch, smell and taste is all based upon our own personal perception. This takes us back to our point; Monday is purely a matter of relativity. Scientists worldwide have proven time and time again that the particles that make up all matter on this earth, react differently when perceived against when not perceived.  

Now to blow your brains clear out of your skull, imagine with me for a moment: If the whole of the world is simply based on whether or not it is perceived or documented, the microcosm that is your own existence is built upon the foundation of your own personal perception. You hold the keys to your own life. You are behind the wheel of the vehicle that is driving you from birth to death. It is your choice to perceive the signs and activity on the road as you see fit.

Don't let the social construct that Monday will be the drab beginning of your week, control who you are as a person.

Yes, Monday is the beginning of most of our work weeks. Yes, that thought alone is enough to bring some to tears. This is your choice. Not the choice of your god, your beliefs, your boss or your schedule. Like Olmec from Legends of the Hidden Temple says, the choice is yours and yours alone. If pleasant music can change the growth pattern of your plants, if positive thoughts directed on water cells can alter the shape of the ice it will become in it's physical form, you have the ability within you to change your depressing outlook to the beginning of the week into whatever your mind desires.

This is not an advice column, I do not have answers for life's mysteries and I certainly don't believe I am any smarter than any of my readers, but I do know I have an opinion on how you may be able to begin your week with a greater outlook than just having "another case of the Mondays.". Then again, this is only a matter of relevance.

Mr. Irrelevant