The Sunday Effect

Hey All, so I have a theory called the Sunday Effect. It is Sunday night, you have saved all of your work/calls/emails/etc up til tonight, and you are feeling terrible. You think to yourself, "wow, why couldn't I plan ahead, get more work done during the week, why am I such an idiot". You beat yourself up, making yourself feel worse and distracting you from what you need to get done for the next week.

This is how I feel when it's the end of the year. I think of everything I wanted to accomplish or change, how much time I thought I had on my hands, and how I didn't do any of it. It's why I feel pretty terrible around the holidays, and why I think New Years is overrated.

But it overshadows all that I did accomplish this past year, even if it was minimal. I did not have a great year by any means, but there are still instances that I can take away and feel proud. I'm learning to try to believe in myself more, and I hope you do as well.

Now, I'm saying this at 10:50 pm on a Friday night with no plans, in a dark room on a bed alone, so I do feel a tad hypocritical to make sure you all are feeling okay while I am not. But seeing as FJ has been a great source of distraction and enjoyment, and I have been wanting to do something like this for a while, so I hope you'll indulge me.

Don't get down by the Sunday Effect, keep it going, and call your grandmother for god sake's jeez your Mom has asked you like 3 times already.