Weekend Vows
I am back. I hope your weekend has been pleasure filled, with lots of leisure a and laid back schedule. My weekend has been hectic filled with "to do" activities that have been pending long since.
When I look back in reminiscence what I used to do for a weekend, a year ago, it looks like gone are those days of fun. I used to get up around 9 in the morning and by then my wife would have left for the college, not before ensuring that my breakfast is ready and the news paper is available ready at arms length on the bed. I have always had this habit to read the newspaper on the bed even on weekdays. Get out of the bed around 10; brush and breakfast, then sit down to watch the television. At around 11:30, I used to getup and start cooking those special dishes that are my favorites. Finish a leisure lunch with my wife and then either watch an interesting movie or read my favorite book or simply sleep.
A phone call between 3 to 4 from Jai/Vikram/Satish or all three in a conference call would interrupt my current activity and the questions are familiar, "What are you doing now? What are you planning to do for the evening?" My answers are also predictable, "Nothing, Nothing" and a detailed plan as to what to do is laid down and arrangements are quickly made and then we meet at a common place to set off to a weekend resort or a restaurant, shopping mall or a movie. It is generally a weekend resort. A three hour swimming session with quick crash courses from Vikram to all as to how to jump into the water, how to swim etc, a walk into the woody resort followed by a lavish dinner only to return to someone’s home at around 2 in the morning to sleep.
Sunday would be another lazy morning with prolonged discussions on not very important topics, like movies, cars, music or some funny thing that has happened to someone, coupled with homemade breakfast and lunch. A nice movie, banter makes the day worth spending. Sunset would remind you that it is time to go home. When you reach home, you have unwound yourself and are prepared for the Monday morning.
Back then, I never had a restaurant, wasn't building a house and didn't have an aggressive approach to career opportunities, which cut short the free time that was once available.
That was past. Now a day, weekends are no different. With just me and my wife at home all household work and other activities need to be shared between us. Added to this is the construction activity of the apartment which practically eats up all the time, then you have the restaurant work, Income tax work, vehicle repairs and not to ignore numerous petty but important things like selling old newspapers, getting a trouser from dry cleaning shop.
Travel to office is one major culprit that consumes lot of time. I practically spend 2 hours commuting to and fro which leaves no time to attend to house hold related work during the weekedays, leaving no alternative other than working them up during the weekend. By the time you attend the first few in the laundry list of to do activities your Saturday vanishes away and one half day is spent at the apartment, leaving you the Sunday evening for the restaurant.
I am learning to enjoy the activities that I am having to do during the weekend. Having said that, the very idea that you have nothing to do for the weekend but to simply lie down, eat, read a good book, watch a great movie is a bliss, never mind, even if I were to be branded lethargic.
When I look back in reminiscence what I used to do for a weekend, a year ago, it looks like gone are those days of fun. I used to get up around 9 in the morning and by then my wife would have left for the college, not before ensuring that my breakfast is ready and the news paper is available ready at arms length on the bed. I have always had this habit to read the newspaper on the bed even on weekdays. Get out of the bed around 10; brush and breakfast, then sit down to watch the television. At around 11:30, I used to getup and start cooking those special dishes that are my favorites. Finish a leisure lunch with my wife and then either watch an interesting movie or read my favorite book or simply sleep.
A phone call between 3 to 4 from Jai/Vikram/Satish or all three in a conference call would interrupt my current activity and the questions are familiar, "What are you doing now? What are you planning to do for the evening?" My answers are also predictable, "Nothing, Nothing" and a detailed plan as to what to do is laid down and arrangements are quickly made and then we meet at a common place to set off to a weekend resort or a restaurant, shopping mall or a movie. It is generally a weekend resort. A three hour swimming session with quick crash courses from Vikram to all as to how to jump into the water, how to swim etc, a walk into the woody resort followed by a lavish dinner only to return to someone’s home at around 2 in the morning to sleep.
Sunday would be another lazy morning with prolonged discussions on not very important topics, like movies, cars, music or some funny thing that has happened to someone, coupled with homemade breakfast and lunch. A nice movie, banter makes the day worth spending. Sunset would remind you that it is time to go home. When you reach home, you have unwound yourself and are prepared for the Monday morning.
Back then, I never had a restaurant, wasn't building a house and didn't have an aggressive approach to career opportunities, which cut short the free time that was once available.
That was past. Now a day, weekends are no different. With just me and my wife at home all household work and other activities need to be shared between us. Added to this is the construction activity of the apartment which practically eats up all the time, then you have the restaurant work, Income tax work, vehicle repairs and not to ignore numerous petty but important things like selling old newspapers, getting a trouser from dry cleaning shop.
Travel to office is one major culprit that consumes lot of time. I practically spend 2 hours commuting to and fro which leaves no time to attend to house hold related work during the weekedays, leaving no alternative other than working them up during the weekend. By the time you attend the first few in the laundry list of to do activities your Saturday vanishes away and one half day is spent at the apartment, leaving you the Sunday evening for the restaurant.
I am learning to enjoy the activities that I am having to do during the weekend. Having said that, the very idea that you have nothing to do for the weekend but to simply lie down, eat, read a good book, watch a great movie is a bliss, never mind, even if I were to be branded lethargic.
posted by yedavalliravi @ 10:30 AM
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1 Comments:
I didnot like it at all. Why do you need to have all those references. Cant you do without them?
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