Pub Talk

The Perils of Daydreaming

How many of us spend the entire working week wishing it was clocking off time on a Friday?
I suspect that quite a lot is probably the honest truth, and those of you who answered differently only did so because your working week doesn’t end on a Friday. 

In a bored moment, at work as it happens, I calculated just how much time one could spend wishing they were somewhere else for that magic 48 hour weekend.

If you’re a serial daydreamer, that works out at 40 hours a week, 2080 hours a year, and if you assume that the average working life is 18-65, we are looking at a staggering total of 97760 hours that you simply want to get rid of.

That total will only increase if you work super crazy 12 hour shifts, or if the Government follows its inevitable course towards making us all work until we die.

So 2 in 7 days are spent in the pursuit of leisure, and what do most people end up doing with them?
Either dull domestic stuff destined to be forgotten, getting painfully drunk rendering you unable to remember the time you so covet, or simply fretting over the impending return to wishing your days away on a Monday.

My point put plainly and simply, is that for all our desperate, national efforts to move time with only our collective mind-power as our weapon, we use the weekend to jolly poor effect.

Seize time whilst you can. Grasp it, embrace it, and use it wisely, because one day it will run out, and if you’re one of those people who has wasted 97760 hours wishing it away….Well that was silly wasn’t it?

As for me, I’m just the guy who worked out the numbers! You won’t catch me wishing it away. I’m using my weekend wisely by the way.

Heavy rain, or no heavy rain, I’m off camping.

Enjoy your weekends!