Why Sunday Thoughts Are Different Than Others

There shouldn’t be a reason why Sunday thoughts are different from any other thoughts. There shouldn’t even be a difference between Sunday and Tuesday. I mean, there’s no fundamental difference between Sunday and any other day. The sun still came up. Everything is just made up.

The reason we use such constructs, and why certain thoughts have different meanings, is because not all thoughts are the same.

A lot of people, myself included, use the end of the week to think and reflect on things that happened earlier. The reason we do this is that a lot of things that happen need time to be reflected upon. Sexual matters, for instance. Sometimes something happens and you feel that it’s a bit off, but you can’t put it into words. You have a bad feeling, but you don’t yet know why you don’t like it — you just sense that something is different. The annoying thing is that you only realize this later: days, months, or even years afterwards. Without time to reflect, you can’t form an opinion about it.

There’s a group of people who watch out for others a little bit. They do some of this reflecting for them. Sometimes I notice that something is off because of a tiny shift in someone’s behavior, and I know I have to do something about it, but I don’t yet know what. It can be in a tiny moment when someone moves slightly differently when a certain topic comes up. And other people do this for me too. They indirectly let me know — via subtle, indirect communication — that I’m slightly off, that I’m not in my best shape.

In some religions, every thought is treated the same, which is frankly — and excuse my language — ridiculous. A thought about something that already happened is not the same as a thought about something that still has to happen. Please, take the time to reflect. Take more time. We’re all rushing too much. It’s good to set aside a day in the week to do nothing. Maybe nature needs to reflect more too.