Legit 3 Day Weekend
Mar 25
Posted: under General, Thinking Too Much.
I actually have a 3 day weekend that I didn’t create myself….the first of the year. I have today off because it’s good Friday. It’s one of those holidays that I don’t celebrate and I suspect most people don’t exactly but we get off anyways. If memory serves, Jesus died or something so we all get the day off. It’s kind of like veterans day in a way, only we don’t get that one off…. I forget the whole good Friday thing every year though… I’m just not a big Jesus freak so I never really bother quite completely remembering. A day off is a day off though….
I just have to manage to stay productive during my time off. I’ve actually not been totally incompetent the last couple of days and I’ve managed to get some stuff done around the house and such. I’ve managed to retain some motivation and do the same today so far pretty much. Usually in the past when I begin a good trend it falls apart over the weekend when I’m lacking other structure. Hopefully I can keep on going this time.
I’d like to use the weekend to get caught up as much as I can on “projects” around the house that I never really do but said I would. That way when the new week starts I can do my daily stuff around the house and then be done and use the rest of the time to do something more for myself (yet still productive).
It was also a year ago yesterday (surely not by the date but by relation to when good Friday falls) that I got my tattoo. I more or less immediately meant to get another one, but I still haven’t gotten around to it. Or rather, I’m still not sure what I’d actually like to have done and I like to put some thought into things quite so permanent. For those who don’t know, the image on the left there is my tattoo and it’s on the inside of my left forearm. It is a dragon wrapped around a the Chinese/Japanese symbol/character that means strength (or power, as the Japanese I occasionally work with tell me)
The meaning is something to the tune of “true strength comes from within”, which sounds stupid to me when you just say it. It’s a broad statement that has about the same impact as “we have nothing to fear but fear itself” and other such statements if you don’t bother to put any thought into it. Depending on how you want to look at it though, it can mean a lot. I could probably go on for too long about the philosophy behind it as I see it, but the gist is that the strength you have to do anything comes from within you. You might think you derive strength from a person, even, drug, or whatever, but it really comes from yourself. The key, perhaps, is to summon said strength without those other catalysts. It’s not necessarily easy but not impossible either. But now I’m moving beyond the meaning of the original statement. At any rate, it’s something I truly believe, even if I don’t exactly practice what I preach.
