Sundays are a source of anguish and are undoubtedly a designated day of the week for many people, a day destined to be feared by many by the emotions generated, on the contrary, for others, the last day of the week is a day to recharge the batteries that have been exhausted and build your today, your gift.
We usually know a lot of people who are living in trouble today. A day that floods us with nostalgia and truth. In a way, it’s like Sunday gives us an invisible slap in the face of reality. “Here I am, this is your freedom. , this is you and your existence. “The end of a cycle, the week.
- It’s like he’s showing us everything we avoid thinking about.
- As if opening the drawer we worked so hard to keep closed all week.
- But.
- Almost magically.
- There’s always an encounter with Sundays.
- A meeting in which this drawer opens and reveals a part of what we don’t want to feel.
On the other hand, Sunday is a paradoxical day because there is often a huge sense of tiredness, we wonder how the hell we are going to start a new week with that feeling that, in our minds, we only imagine growing. we think that The tiredness of Sundays usually occurs because at the weekend we changed our habits and, therefore, the body is a little “in place”, in many cases because of too much rest or because the low tension compared to the week was very strong.
Sunday tells us about our existence, without distractions or imposed blindness, it’s your life, it’s you. It’s like he stripped us naked and left us helpless in the face of an uncertain future. We’ll take care of our work clothes on Monday, literally and figuratively. We will be distracted from the anguish that appears on Sundays as we begin to work.
In the occupation we find peace, we find meaning, direction and stability. We’re something for something. We have a fertile place in the world, our grain of sand helps build this society, a society full of people who fear the moment when their existence is stripped, people who are paradoxically terrified of freedom.
Has Erich Fromm ever highlighted this situation in his work: the fear of freedom?(1941). He pointed out this curious paradox between wanting our freedom and, in turn, fearing it for the responsibility it entails, if I am free, I am entirely responsible for my existence and my choices, that abyss in which I must build and invent myself. it causes me unbearable distress, as well as insecurity and turmoil.
Sundays cause anxiety accompanied by emptiness. Sunday is a kind of limbo between who we are in this society, our role as professionals and what we are deep in our existence, which puts us in the face of our most primary loneliness, a loneliness from which we must move away.
Sometimes we push her back in search of any kind of company, all so as not to be alone, because when we are alone, often anguish invades us, and in order not to suffer the effects of this hurricane, we will do what we can. is sleeping all day, being with people whose company doesn’t feed us or just get distracted.
Many people dependent on work do not support the idea of spending a day without work, that day would involve facing your truth, your existence, your way of escaping, unbridled activity fills us with life because it keeps us busy and makes us feel useful, but it also takes us away from who we are, takes us away from our loneliness, from our turmoil.
Work helps us avoid this anxiety, so it appears so violently on Sundays. What we cover so insistently will disappear when we least expect it. Therefore, it is important to observe what happens in us with an honest look; otherwise, we will not be able to take advantage of this crystalline reflection that we refuse to see.
The fact that many Sundays cause distress is normal. On the return of a trip, the day before our busy routine?This inner storm makes sense and sense. A feeling we must not forget. It is important to live in this world as useful beings who pursue and believe in a sense, in a material to be built.
At the same time, it is important to pay attention to our nature as human beings, in this way we will be able to understand all these natural reactions that arise abruptly and / or repeatedly from us, listening, not denying and accepting our anguish. it will make it more bearable and certainly more fruitful.