Wednesday

I don't know how many people I asked today how their weekend was. Bloody hell, public holidays. What was it for again? Someone died on a cross? Someone died and got a cross? Oh, who knows? 

When I look at the calendar, April has been the month of non stop nonsense, now hasn’t it.

9 Apr Sunday Palm Sunday Christian  

11 Apr Tuesday Milad un Nabi Muslim  

11 Apr Tuesday Hari Maulad Nabi State Holiday Cocos and Keeling Islands

13 Apr Thursday Maundy Thursday Christian  

13 Apr Thursday First day of Passover Jewish holiday  

14 Apr Friday Good Friday Restricted Trading Day Victoria

14 Apr Friday Good Friday National Holiday  

15 Apr Saturday Holy Saturday National Holiday  

16 Apr Sunday Easter Sunday National Holiday  

17 Apr Monday Easter Monday National Holiday All except Christmas Island

18 Apr Tuesday Easter Tuesday State Public Sector Holiday Tasmania

20 Apr Thursday Last day of Passover Jewish holiday  

21 Apr Friday Orthodox Good Friday Orthodox  

22 Apr Saturday Orthodox Holy Saturday Orthodox  

23 Apr Sunday Orthodox Easter Orthodox  

24 Apr Monday Orthodox Easter Monday Orthodox  

25 Apr Tuesday Yom HaShoah Jewish commemoration

25 Apr Tuesday ANZAC Day National Holiday ACT, Christmas Island, Cocos and Keeling Islands, Heard and McDonald Islands, Tas, Vic

25 Apr Tuesday ANZAC Day

But it makes tomorrow Thursday, hey? Got to love that.

I friend of mine, Robyn, always had Wednesdays off because it meant she only ever worked a 2 day week. You have to love that logic, if nothing else.

And another week slips by at the salt mines. Am I going to do this for the next twenty years? Funny to think.

Most of us, the vast majority, just have pointless jobs. So, by definition, we live most of our lives performing pointless tasks. So therefore, most of us waste our lives?

You think that is too harsh, do the maths on most people’s achievements?

I think it is true, we put in the hours to maintain the machine. How much of that machine, actually, maintains us?

Not much, I'd say. Faceless corporations making faceless profits for the faceless few at the top.

The rest of us? We're just the discarded lube from the engine.

I guess there is little wonder then why so many of us believe in the before mention nonsense chronicled in the calendar events, I gave you?

Don’t you think it is a pretty sad indictment on organised religion when the reason for most people joining is the fact they are desperate for meaning in their life? It kind of implies they’d believe in anything… and do.