Searching for Significance

Weekends are special; they are not like any other part of the week. As such I have found that I like to, no almost need to, acknowledge that in some way. I want my weekends to be significant. I want to be able to go to work on Monday and know that I did not waste my weekend, but took advantage of the time away from work to do something that was important or significant. Take last weekend for example: I spent all day Saturday getting wood for our house. That one event gave purpose and meaning for my weekend.

I'm not looking to do something wildly important, I'm not looking to change the world or our house, but I am looking to do something with a purpose. There have been times my wife and I have declared a weekend to be a video game marathon weekend, and others we have hosted board game marathons, sometimes we even have a TV/Movie marathon. All those activities are fine simply because I am doing something I cannot normally do during the week.

This weekend seems to be something different. We forgot to define it, and as I now ponder our options it seems this will be a weekend without significance. I have a hundred little things I could do, and I might even want to do some of them, but none of them are things I can't do during the week.

There is one exception, this weekend, this very morning, I am finally able to put my philosophy of the weekend into words now. Maybe in the future I can put this to good use.