A Sojourn among the Avatars of Wisdom
During the workweek, we earn a salary to provide for our family. Our significant others wave good-bye to us as we leave. On the weekends, it’s generally a time to unwind. Or is it?
On our days off, we engage in entertainment, which usually involves cheering of some kind if it involves sports. We applaud our favorite teams, which represents us indirectly. What if our team doesn’t do well or make the playoffs? What then? Wait until next year?
With the exception of a vacation or two, the weekends themselves blur past us like the view out the side window of a speeding car. By extension, the weekends over the last couple of years have faded into oblivion in our driver’s mirror.
But who cheers for us? Possibly our bosses do so once a year. What about the remaining days? Are we doing something now that’s worth the acclamation of others? Consider that attending “training camp” might be in our future, and that doing so will occur every Saturday and/or Sunday.
Those professional athletes for whom we root invested years in their craft. Now is our chance to emulate their effort … or at least take steps in that direction. Going forward, consider that all the hours during the weekend will not be entertaining.
Rather, part of each weekend will be dedicated to improving ourselves either through education or by physical exertion. Either way, the extra effort will require us to consider the road not taken, one that will require us to toil while our friends and family members will be enjoying themselves.
Yes, we’ll hear words of encouragement. But actual cheers? Months or years will pass, but when the acclamation comes, it will do so from the folks dearest to us: our friends and family.
