Bits of Life

III. You Either Keep or Break the Momentum

It's Sunday night again. Tomorrow's another Monday to go to work. I'm already anticipating a rather hectic work week for me. Dry cough is becoming irritable but don't worry, I don't have fever, nor headache that comes with it.

However, earlier today I was speaking to a friend. Let's call him Chris Colfer. Chris is not in the mood to go to work today. He actually already skipped work yesterday. Before yesterday, Chris was on his two days off work - regular rest days.

When I asked Chris why he didn't show up for work yesterday his answer was that he was not feeling it. Chris wasn't sick of anything. He just didn't want to go to work. Today, he wasn't sick either. Chris said he is just not into the mood to go to work again. He even mentioned he might just quit.

As a concerned friend, I tried to step in by asking probing questions. If you are not sick to miss work, is someone there making you feel not going to work? - He said no. Do you feel you need a mental health break from work? - He said no, it isn't on that level yet. Then, why are you not in the mood to go to work? - Chris said, he just doesn't feel like it.

Chris just doesn't feel like going to work. He is very much entitled to that if that is what he feels. But I have to butt-in a little bit of personal level questions. Are you personally ready for the consequences of quitting your job? - is it practical to let go of a job that pays your rent, your bills, your lifestyle? He didn't give an answer. I didn't need one. Then he decided to go to work.

Sometimes, we are the push that somebody else needs to keep going. We just have to do the pushing the right way. I also needed a push from time to time. There are moments I don't feel like continuing on just anything anymore. There are instances that I needed a break and no matter how small the matter is, for me it is still valid.

There are also times that I get to enjoy long weekends and by the time I need to go back to work, I just don't feel like it. These are times when I'm not sick, nor is somebody at work making me feel not going. I just don't feel like it. Luckily, every time I share this with a friend or two, they would always tell me that most probably I am just hanging on to the momentum of having long days of rest. And most of the time it is true.

Without knowing any reason at all, being in the momentum of not doing anything keeps us and makes us still want to be in that momentum. So you either keep the momentum or break it. You had a long weekend? Just go to work even if you don't feel like it and the laziness will just break. Without you realizing it, you are making a new momentum - being productive at work.

This goes the same for students going to class. It can be very enjoyable to be academically free over the weekends, and you may want to skip school on Mondays. But you just have to get up and attend your classes. Little will you know you are already laughing with classmates and friends at school again.

There is momentum in everything we do if we keep it. But if it's not very beneficial to be on that momentum, then it's time to break it and make anew.