Why people enjoy weekends?
A silly thought that later changed the way I look at life.
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Humans have progressed as a race and made significant improvements in their living.
You don’t need to carry water now, there are pipes.
You can do your work from your AC room/ office, you don’t need to go out in the heat and build things (true for most of us).
All these systems have been the result of series of innovations and progressions.
People have worked hard to get us here, but for what?
If you think fundamentally, humans have built a better life for themselves and their race, only to prepare the race to work all day in office, take a lot of stress and live bad lives all over again?
Was this the goal of all the “problem solving” we’ve done over the years?
If a human has to live a bad life to afford this convenience, hasn’t the whole purpose failed?
If humanity isn’t happy and feels at ease, feels freedom, and enjoys everyday, the whole purpose of this human progression has failed.
If humanity has to suffer 5 days just to enjoy and take a breather on 2 last days of the week, the whole purpose has failed.
I never liked the concept of making weekends this exhaustion elimination part of the week.
Weekends for me are meant for stuff I don’t generally do. Something creative, something different. Something to be done with family.
So, what’s the best way to approach this modern day problem?
Better body and mind energy management systems: We should build better energy systems for ourselves. No matter how hectic our week is, we should not treat weekends as an escape.
Slowly going into a direction where work and fun can collide and sustain: We should be looking for work that is sustainably enjoyable. I do understand the fact that work is ultimately work and it will get monotonous, but there are certain things that are “our things” in life, we should try to find them and go in their direction.
Creating parts of the normal weekdays that are enjoyable outside of work: This will eliminate escapism. Do things that you really want to do every week, you won’t ever have a requirement to escape them.
Basically:
Overtime we should intentionally device ways to drift our life towards a path where we don’t have to suffer for the conveniences our race has built for us to enjoy.
To start that, we need to start our path towards financial freedom. My startup FinFloww’s main goal is that. To help people life better, more fulfillied lives.
Where money for them is nothing but a token. A token that enables these conveniences of life. At first manually, but overtime with autonomously.
What’s coming this week?
Last week I wasn’t able to deliver on what I had promised :(
So, this week I won’t promise anything🤣, but I’ll definitely give you a hint.
My favourite thread will come this week. This was the foundation stone of what ultimately became behavioural economics.
And another thread on the superstar of Indian cricket who has literally shocked the world with his batting style in the past year and a half. Take a guess…
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