The Perfect Day

Have you ever seen celebrity interviews or Q&A questionnaires, and hear the infamous: "Describe your perfect day." Most of their responses have to do with relaxation, a day full of hobbies, alone time, or just 24 hours of sleep.

My perfect day is a day with 48 hours.

I imagine most problems could be rooted back to the day being too short for all you want to finish. How am I to sleep eight hours, go to the gym, eat healthy, run errands, enjoy my hobbies, go to the doctor, go to work full-time, get an education, maintain a social life, all the while sustaining an attitude toeing the line above depression, and looking presentable. There are days I will find myself with an hour or so that has zero tasks tied to it, thus ends in me wasting at least 20 minutes of that hour deciding what to do with it. Oh my doctors appointment got cancelled? Yippee, let me go grab a shirt I haven't worn in 8 months that has a small hole in it and sew it! Or I can finish the crochet fairy lights I never got to finish. Or I can finally finish that book that has been on my TBR list for 2 years!

I feel people might tether this concept of my perfect day into the idea of procrastination, and I am also wondering that as I type, but this is quite different. A day with 48 hours also allows for the most important thing that procrastination has no connection to—SLEEP. Sleep is wonderful and the fact that a human being cannot function without it is very interesting but that is for another post.

Not to sound philosophical but the idea of a perfect day relies on the sole fact that you yourself do not get many days like it. If your perfect day is a spa day with no responsibility, you likely are up to your neck in responsibilities and could use a good back massage. If your perfect day is a shopping spree, you have had a confidence boost, want to put your wallet to work, and I envy you deeply. Unfortunately, while 48 hours might double the normal day, it doesn't double the money. There are countless varying versions of one's perfect day that of course depends on the "one" in question—the perfect day is in the eye of the beholder. I have learned, though, that inquiring what it might entail does tell you a lot about a person. With this in mind, I have conducted the briefest of surveys: My friend, age 22, female, and dreams of being a behavioral therapist, her current job is on the path towards it (I think). One semester shy of graduating, and a Sagittarius. Her perfect day entails an early morning sunrise with acai (I assume in bowl form), go to the beach, get sushi for lunch, go home and play with her (adorable void) black cat, then shower and head out for a Miami night that will blend well into the next sunrise.

From this, I can gather that she somehow left out the bit where she puts 11 bottles of 5-hour-energy drink into that acai because there's no way one has enough energy for Miami beach all day, then Miami clubbing all night. I also know her, so I also know there is a nap somewhere in that perfect day, or perhaps what might make it perfect is the added ability to be invincible to the fatigue state. Another friend of mine, age 22, male, Associate Degree owner, avid lover of protein and weights that total to over 100 pounds. His perfect day is described as: hitting upper (gym thing?), going to Barnes & Noble, playing the game (again no idea if that means gym or charisma) and then studying. From this, I can gather that the former two things are true and the rest is him just talking.

So now this only prompts me to wonder what about those infamous Q&A's are truly authentic. When one answers "What is one wish you would make if you could?" with "world peace" I automatically think that isn't the real answer. Maybe I am just a hater. Or maybe I'm pragmatic. Or maybe I simply doubt the source of which the answer comes from; forgive me, but certain egregious platform holders, whether it be political or otherwise, who answer this way, I don't believe you—this way of thinking is usually collected from the binders of past actions that prove otherwise.

So with this I ask you to look inward and ask yourself what your perfect day is. Now ask if that truly is your perfect day or if it appeases someone else somehow. Now ask if that day is at all plausible. Now go get it. I will be cheering you on from the sidelines until the universe adheres to my hourly change request