Dedicate Sunday to yourself — What you can do by not doing
by Felicia
A majority of Taylor’s student has completed their classes and is now just waiting for their final exams, where they get to finally prove to themselves and their lecturers that they have in fact absorbed knowledge in the past 3 months.
Last week, Chelsea Orie, a semester 5 student studying Mass Communication had her final week of classes. She had deadlines after deadlines after deadlines due until the Saturday. So on Sunday, she decided she wanted the Sunday all to herself. A day for her to recuperate, and just do nothing — a day to be lazy. She deserved it, I thought.
However, Saturday night, Chelsea messaged me. “Felicia, I want to be lazy, but I have commitments. Nicole ajak me to go Saturday tomorrow.”. ‘Saturday’ is a cafe located in TTDI, Damansara. “Would you like to join us?”, she added. I had to decline her invitation, due to my own ongoing deadlines to meet. “Didn’t you want a day off on Sunday?”, I continued.
“Commitments.”, she answered.
I went back to attend my own commitments, but my mind furthered on to thinking, commitments are one thing, but not being able to rest when you most deserve it after a long stressing week, is not acceptable.
So I figured, why was it so difficult for us to decline a plan, and when we do so, why do we feel bad. Before I got to the bottom of those hard-hitting questions, Cheslea messaged me again. “I’m really tired though, I could really use a day off. Hmm…”, she said. “Then decline, and have a day off.”, I retort.
I’ve known Chelsea for 3 years now, and Chelsea is the type that doesn’t like feeling left out and feel like she’s missed out on anything. But most importantly, she doesn’t want to disappoint anyone. Which is why she feels bad when she declines anyone.
So I told Chelsea this, “If you stay home, you can lie on your bed, you don’t have to shower, wake up late, catch up on your shows, watch movies. All in the confine of your comfort zone.”
If Chelsea stays in,
She can lie on her bed the whole day — and it’s allowed. After a hard week full of assignment submission, she deserves it. It’s the one time that she is allowed to bail on the world, and commit to herself.
She doesn’t have to shower. There’s nothing more than showering, that says, “oh you’ve got something to do today.” than showering. Not showering, is a symbol of freedom. Not showering, is a metaphor to winning.
She can wake up late. Waking up late is another sign that you have won. You have won the battle, soldier, so rest, rest away your fight. Now is the time to recuperate after a long battle against the assignment and deadlines.
She can catch up on her shows. Catching up on shows because you have missed it by being away from home to fight for your relevance in this world. There must be a few weeks worth of episodes, that is your reward, you get to do a marathon, a back-to-back episode from where you’ve missed.
She’s in the confine of her comfort zone. She’s won the battle. She’s reunited with her family again, and they can’t be more proud and delighted that she’s back, in one piece.
She replied me with an “Okay.”, but she went on with her commitments and replaced her well-deserved day off on Sunday to Monday. Chelsea’s the real champion because she still had a little energy to squeeze in one more plan into her schedule.
