For several years I have been wondering why I still make a difference between the week and the weekend. The notion of the end of the week was important to me when I was still working to make a living. Now I don't work anymore, but not because I won the lottery or because I bought a bunch of bitcoins long ago that I forgot about and found recently. No, the cause is much more trivial... I'm a pensioner. In the past I worked to live, now I get a pension so I can't die...
I would like to!
I would like my pension to prevent me from dying, but I know it won't.
It's been more than five years since I no longer have to go to work, to that theoretical "9 am to 5 pm" which where I worked was 8 am to 8 pm (and even more than that). In those many years of work, the weekend was something of a holy day. It was the little time for household chores and relaxation.
Now I can say that, theoretically, the whole week could be the same as a weekend. Theoretically! I mean when you're the absolute master of your time. I'm not. I'm married and that changes the facts of the matter a lot. I'm also a grandfather. That changes the facts even more...
I find that I have less free time now than when I used to go to work every day.
The consequence is that... the weekend is wanted more than ever!
The question is ( and it's not mine, it's @galenkp's):
"Are you physically active on the weekend or do you prefer a sedentary weekend lifestyle?"
My wife and I are very different in one regard. She likes to leave the house every day... shopping, walking, shows, museums, friends...
I like to stay at home. I like it at home! I would stay a long, long time without leaving home.
A complicated situation when there is such a big difference in the approach to leisure time, a situation generating conflicts... sometimes. To settle them, we agreed to do it to everyone's liking, one weekend at a time. One week my wife chooses what to do, the other I choose.
The result is a very physically active weekend followed by a rather sedentary, even lazy one sometimes.
It would seem a very good deal but I have to admit that I am much more physically active than lazy.
My favorite Deep Purple song, LAZY, is here in Joe Bonamassa's version.
Lazy - Jimmy Barnes & Joe Bonamassa
I also exaggerated a bit in what I said earlier.
Fortunately, the weekend consists of two days. Most of the time the first day, Saturday, is for household chores, and Sunday is for relaxing, walking, museums, shows, and meeting friends.
My wife goes to church on Sundays. The church we go to is a small monastery in the old town center. A 300-year-old monastery, a special place in Bucharest.
Very close to the church is a cafe, also very small. It's my favorite café. The best coffee on a Sunday. Then a walk that can end at home, or an exhibition, or at a friend's house.
My weekend is about the same, it's like a routine. A nice routine and different from the routine of the rest of the week.
I like it.
Even though it's much more physically active than sedentary.
This is the answer to the question!
