Mondays Suck - Or Do They?

Mondays suck. There's no doubt about it. The question is why. People tend to think: oh, that's because Mondays we start work / school again. I used to think this too. But today, when I had neither work nor school, and it still sucked, it occurred to me that perhaps this goes deeper than it seems. This made me ponder that Mondays are the days of the Moon. Mind you, that's not only in English cultures, but in French, German and so on. Obviously, there's a sharp contrast between the brilliant Sun-days and the darker Mon-days. Sun-days are meant to be warm, bright, homey. By contrast, the Moon-day is cold, dark, obscure.

Then again, if you look at it in Christian Bible terms, Monday is the first day of creation. Have you thought about it that way? It's actually the first day when God rolled up his sleeves and said, ok, how will I make this happen? On Monday he decided that light was a good thing. So Monday is when chaos starts to be dismantled, and order begins to appear. Yet it is still hovering there, the darkness at the edge of your eye, the spiritual beginnings. So I think Monday, even in Christian terms, is a muddled time of incertitude, governing darkness and the glimpse (and hope) of a new creative week.

Doesn't it strike you funny that the day of the first creation would actually come after Sunday, the day of the last creation and of rest? In other words, creation keeps repeating itself, every single week. The darkness of a new beginning comes after the brightness of an ending.