Here, once again, I am spending yet another of those lazy Sundays which I have been somewhat accustomed to since the beginning of my career as a 'researcher'. And now sitting idly I hit this brilliant idea of writing up something on one question that I have pondered over for long: what makes a perfect Sunday?
First of all I acknowledge the fact that the perception of the perfect day varies from person to person, depending on the various parameters that define one's livelihood. My perfect Sunday applies to someone who satisfies the following conditions, who:
a. is involved in a job that requires some effort during the weekdays (physical/mental/psychological) and no effort on Sundays.
b. is single (happily/unhappily).
c. doesn't/can't cook his own food.
d. doesn't mind compromising a meal or two to get a few hours more to sleep.
e. doesn't mind compromising on a few hours of sleep when the comp (with a net connection) is on.
f. understands 'hanging out' as watching his/her favorite movie/listening to all the music/playing the coolest FPS around and not as a night out with those pals.
Okay, now let's get going. The first thing needed for a perfect Sunday is a perfect Saturday evening. It sets the tone for the next day. Like, you come back from work, and know that you needn't go back tomorrow. So, there is something relaxed about the air. You get fresh, grab your evening beverage and contemplate what to do now. It is best when it is not pre-planned. L down, do something, don't do something, and then, spend the time the way you like, have dinner, again do something, and just pass the time lazily, that's most important, the sense of serenity, that the world is not going to end tomorrow, that peacefulness in what you do. Again have your late night junk food stuff, and stay up as late as possible. This is important because this will ensure that when you eventually sleep, it will be a really blissful and uninterrupted one.
Now, the most important part, for a Sunday to be perfect, it should start only well into the afternoon. Till then? Well, you sleep! You got to sleep not before dawn and wake up in the afternoon, ensuring that you miss regular lunch.
Waking up in the afternoon leads one to view the world in completely different manner, believe me on this one. The day is gone, the sun is preparing for saying , it is soon going to be dark, the light is already low, and it is not going to get stronger, all in all, there is a certain charm about the moment, which you can one can savor only if one has just woken up from a well-deserved, deep,peaceful, relaxed slumber. This feeling, that is the most important aspect that makes a Sunday perfect. It is this feeling that you are deprived of all the week. It is there, only it has to be felt the way it has to be, and that can be done only on a perfect Sunday.
After you wake up, head for the foodstuff again, come back, do some leisurely stuff, again unplanned, mostly useless things, that don't affect and are not affected by the weekdays' work in anyway. And spend the night this way, till you go to sleep, the heavens that a Monday always follows the perfect Sunday...
