Happy Friday everyone or whatever day it is that you are reading this post. I am typing these words on a Friday and I feel like the song by the O’Jays titled “Living for the Weekend”. I plan on having a really good time downtown after work today I really do.
Let me just sit down
And relax a minute
Let me tell you about it
Aha, it’s Friday
Oh ho, thank God, it’s Friday
And I just got paid
Going across town
Gonna pick up my lady
Have a little bit of fun
Just ain’t no telling
Where I might end up
You might see me on the east side
Ha, the west side
I’m even going cross the bridge
‘Cause I, ’cause I, ’cause I hear
They really get down over there
Owe it to myself
(Well, well, I)
Gonna party
(Well, well, I)
Gonna party
I owe it to myself
(Well, well, I)
Oh, party, party
I’m just living, yeah
(Living for the weekend)
Woo hoo, said I’ma
(Living for the weekend)
I said right now, I’m
(Living for the weekend)
I said this evening
(Living for the weekend)
For the next two days
(Living for the weekend)
Gonna have a real good time
(Living for the weekend)
Gonna have a real, real
Real good time
(Living for the weekend)
Gonna party hard, hard
Come on, y’all
Let’s go downtown
Come on, y’all
Let’s groove, hey, hey
Monday to Thursday
I’m dead on my feet
Most of the time too tired to eat
When I try to read the paper
I fall fast asleep
But as soon as Friday rolls around
I lay all my weekly burdens down
I put on my glad rags
And paint the town
Friday night alive
(Living for the weekend)
Said, I’m living for the weekend
(Living for the weekend)
Don’t stop when I party down
Party hard, party down
Party hard, party down
Soon as on Monday
Rolls around again
I got to put all that
Partying to an end
Got to solve that same old grind
With those five day week
Sometimes, I get frustrated
Through the day, take off early
And a cut in pay
At the time, I don’t really care
Because I done took
All that I can bear
That’s when I party down
Party hard, party down
Those are some amazing lyrics and I really do enjoy the weekends. I am beholden to no one (sort of) on the weekends and can spend my time with family and friends.
I worked at a factory a few times and experienced rigid scheduling, that was when I truly found joy in a weekend or days off. Later in life I took jobs that were less rigid in schedule and I still love weekends but I am finding some joy in my actual work.
I think that there is nothing wrong with loving weekends but if we are “living for the weekends” what is happening on the week days?
I have tried and continue to try to enjoy everyday and every minute week or weekend be dammed if I am breathing I am going to try to enjoy myself. I will always love that song and my weekends but I am going to also make it a point to love; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as well and so should you.
The Corrigan Encore 