Good day Humans! ;)
Whenever people talk about weekends, I really wanted to know what it felt like to have weekends to one's self. I remember months ago, I barely even felt like I had a life of my own. I could only squeeze out the time for myself and my daily activities. It felt like I was living on borrowed life and this affected a lot of things in my life, made me pause a lot of things as well.
All I did was work, go to school, go to church, and repeat the cycle every day. I didn't have the time for myself, to even fit into a lot of things that needed my presence.
I came back every single day of my life, tired and fatigued, just wishing and hoping for just a day for myself where I didn't have to think of the next task or assignment waiting for me at the corner. Some days it became so overwhelming that I cried a few times, yet picked up the pieces of myself once more to push forward. I became tired, almost depressed yet there was nothing like giving up, so weekends felt like a myth to me because in a twinkle of an eyes, it's week days again.
Before now, I would say that the things I used to do on weekends were not in any way different from the things that I was occupied with during week days too. Working, studying, cleaning, washing etc were all part of the things I usually do on weekends, sometimes I attend programs, seminars, occasions etc.
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But right now, I think I have a little bit of more time for myself, I did finished part of the things that stole all my time and gave me sleepless nights. Coming to dust my Hive account again since last week, I noticed I lacked the motivation to start all over again, because it seems like I'll be starting from the scratch again. I do know I didn't even do a lot while I was still here and having heard from me, you could tell I barely had the time for myself or for my life, the few times I made it out here was based on the fact that I starved myself of a lot of leisure and pleasure just to add value to my life.
So now, what do I do on weekends? I REST!. It might sound funny to you but if only you know the depth at which I was starved of adequate rest, then you probably wouldn't understand where I am coming from, I now spend my week days doing other necessary duties that needs my time and attention but on weekends, I try as much as I can to rest my tired body. I even stopped doing too much of the things that made me cheat my body of some rest, I now allocate some time to myself and it's has been much better compared to how I once lived my life.
Again, I will say, my weekends is basically my resting periods, though I do a few other minor chores and activities, I still rest more except on Sundays like today which I have to step out to the church to fellowship with the body of Christ.
27 July, 2025