WEEKEND

The worth of a weekend is known better for those who work seriously for five days from Monday to Friday.

Saturday and Sunday are the two days we call as weekend.

Weekend means differently for different age groups.

In countries like the USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain weekend is enjoyed by everyone, in order to recharge the mind and body to start working on Monday.

For workaholics, there is no weekend, but they do go on long vacations to shed off their tiredness.

How preciously followed the sacred weekends in countries where the work is worshipped.

I too felt the importance of the weekend when I was in Europe in my thirties working as a scientific researcher.

Those who have family, they do attend to the pending house-hold work and relax on Sunday with the members of the family.

Sometimes people plan for a picnic if the weather is good or for boating or watching a game of tennis.

In every weekend, newspapers also come out with more reading materials for people to relax and update their knowledge.

Aged persons, who love to read, make use of such an opportunity every weekend.

The importance of weekend is realized very much by men and women born in rich countries.

In India too, weekends were introduced by making five-day working week.

 It was not very successful sometimes for obvious reasons.

 It revealed clearly that many people do not work hard and seriously.

People are much relaxed in their office itself so the need for a special weekend for relaxation does not arise.

There was another problem people felt in small towns, was to spend the two days.

Most of the people used to play cards, gambles, drinks liquor and many other unwanted activities.

So introduced weekends were withdrawn in some states of India.

When Rajiv Gandhi was the Prime Minister of India, he introduced the five day week.

Initially, there was not much improvement in the work culture; but later on people tried to understand slowly the importance of the two valuable days called the weekend.

Once people are used to it, and organized their life, then things move alright as in Western countries.

In India, during weekend most of the families buy chicken, meat, or fish and have a good full meal at home with family and friends.

Young couples go to movies and other entertainment in the town.

Many young people invariably plan their program for every weekend.

No one wants to stay at home unless one is sick because when people are working from morning till evening everyday they have to have some sort of relaxation during the weekend outdoor.

Weekends are welcome to anyone so that there is no need to attend schools, colleges or offices.

But some people work during weekends to get overtime pay or for compensation to get a holiday during the week days.

Generally Sunday night the end of weekend is painful for some because they have to start work on Monday.

Essentially weekends energize everyone to get ready for the next week-work.

The word ‘weekend’ is used as such in French language also.

Not all weekends end in a happy note for every one.

For some people, weekends are to visit old age parents or their children who study in boarding school or patients ailing at hospitals.

In fact, what happens in weekends vary with people and their will and pleasure.

Deciding the weekend program itself is a hobby as we plan for annual vacation to visit some other place in the country or abroad.

Weekends are also used for shopping.

Most of the food items like vegetables are bought and stored in refrigerator for the week-use.

Exhibitions, sales of articles and concerts are some of the activities organized during weekends for helping people to attend.

In fact, weekends are very usefully spent by wise people whereas they are wasted also by some.

It depends on the person or persons concerned.

If it rains during weekend, I take a cup of hot coffee and read the weekend edition of a newspaper or a good book.

Wish you a happy weekend.

To tell you the truth, this article was written during one of the weekends.

28 December 2010