Best ways to spend your weekends

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner (Q): The youngsters today have found variety of ways to spend their weekends. How should a youngster really spend their weekend?

Acharya Prashant (AP): I will come straight to the point. First of all, this question should not really arise.

The very distinction between weekday and weekend portends trouble. It means that the weekend is being seen as some kind of a period of recuperation. And if the weekend happens to be, bluntly speaking, a period of recuperation, then the weekdays by implication, have been a period of oppression.

So first of all try not to be in a situation where weekends become very special to you, or even a day like Sunday becomes special to you. If you are someone who has stopped giving importance to Saturdays and Sundays, you will go far in life. And if you are someone who is always found looking forward to the next Saturday and Sunday, it means trouble.

And as I say this, I know what kind of impact these words would have on most of the audience, because this is what most of us do. I too have done this at some stage in my life. But that’s not healthy, not healthy.

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