"Sunday night blues is an acute condition, mostly affecting nine-to-five workers and students. This condition is characterized by anxiety about the week ahead and a sense of helplessness and depression. It most often occurs on Sunday afternoons and evenings. It is also referred to as "school bus blues" or "Sunday night depression".
If I had a big audience here in Blogger, I would do a poll on this -- how many of us suffer from this so called acute condition ? And if we do, should we just accept it as part of life ? And most interesting to me personally: do people who consider themselves to be in their dream jobs also have Sunday Blues ?
To me the whole concept seems insane, even though right now as I am typing this around 9pm on a Sunday evening, I feel very uneasy about tomorrow, the week ahead...and I find myself wondering whether I'll be able to get even two or three hours of sleep tonight.
I don't think it should be like this, but as long as I remember it has been like this....sometimes more, sometimes less (in recent years more and more). In my endless search for ways to find piece of mind and contentment, I am wondering if this is just another sign of the wrong path I am on....or if I should just ignore it, once again this week, and wait until Thursday...then Friday...when that complete feeling of freedom and easy breathing come upon me...and I feel I'm alive for real. For about a day and a half....until Sunday.
I love my job but still get the "sunday blues".. I also get "I don't have enough free time on the week days blues"..Like after work I would love to do so many things but there is no time.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I've had a job in which sunday night was like a anxiety attack.. so this is just probaply me being lazyass :).. Sunday blues are bad but end of the holidays blues is deadly...
That's interesting, thanks -- I don't think I've ever had a job I've loved, but I suspect even if I did, I'd probably feel the blues after the weekend too (and especially after vacations).... Maybe it's about schedules/restrictions; we are just like other animals at the end of the day, born to be free ;)
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