Nobody likes Mondays. They are the North Korea of days of the week — eyed with dread and a dollop of fear. Saturday and Sunday, with all their freedom and frivolity, have passed, and a workweek that seems longer than three football fields is upon us.
Maybe something as simple as the language we use can help us fix it. After all, word wizard Frank Luntz got people to regard “school vouchers” with less distaste simply by rebranding them “opportunity scholarships.” So could it be as simple as hitching together different words to make Mondays feel a little less like a lunch date with Kim Jong-un?
Let’s try. How about we call them … “Weekend Afterglow”?
Did that work for you? Me, either. But let’s not let it dissuade us from putting our best lexiconical foot forward every moment of every day between now and Friday — the bottomless ice cream sundae of days of the week.
Words, used wisely, can change more than minds. They can change the world.
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