Songs For Friday

We sing Friday

The two faces of Friday: One is one of the worst songs ever, while another one is a well-beloved rock classic. So Friday is balanced, huh?

If you are going to sing about a day of the week, Friday is the best. (Monday comes a close second.) If you ask me, Friday is the best day to remember about anything of the past.

Friday and weekend past

When we were still schoolchildren, we looked forward to Friday because next day is Saturday, no school and a whole day to play and horse around, unless teachers bombard us with lots of homework and parents assign us our chores - and there is no escaping them. But at some time of the weekend, we still have fun, right?

I look forward to Friday evenings when I was young. It was the night of Pokemon, Digimon, Super Laff-In, Beast Wars, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Hercules, Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, Power Rangers, and numerous classic TV shows on ABS-CBN and GMA. Those were the times. That was my kind of Friday.

The weekend that followed is more interesting. More interesting TV shows, stress-free day-off for the young, and the house works too. And we did not have mobile gadgets, Internet, and coffee shops then.

That was then.

It was fun.

For the former college dudes and dudettes, Fridays mean dates or late-night parties after school. It also means going home for the weekends or travelling to a place unknown for some kinds of kicks.

Today's Fridays are complicated but laden with more opportunities for fun and socialization. Different eras have their own challenges and opportunities. We cannot return to the Fridays and weekends of our youth, but we can do to bring youthful energy and optimism in today's motion of free time.

Histories

If I'm not wrong, one of the worst earthquakes in mankind's history occurred on a Friday many years ago. Sunny Friday it was then after a week of heavy rain, and I had lettuce for lunch. For my upperclassmen, it was Junior-Senior (JS) prom time.

Speaking of JS prom, the first and last I attended in college was on a Friday too, this time not sunny, but gloomy and rainy. It was a night to remember and a night to forget too. I would later call for the abolition of such an expensive affair that allows teachers to get "additional income". I get trauma every time I remember the affair, and I would gladly make a pact with the devil to change the whole outcome of the event. It was a Friday of mixed feelings, and I was in love too, then.

Many TV shows also end on Fridays, an act which make Friday nights exciting around the TV set. Not anymore today, because we would be fine with catching up on the final episode on the Internet and spend Friday evening painting the town red or get into trouble.

Some Fridays did not change: beer Fridays, payday Fridays, dinner dates on Friday nights, being imprisoned on a Friday night, dying on a Friday night, etc.

Don't forget, Jesus died on a Friday.

What are your memories of Friday? Care to share it with your fellow readers? Juts hit the comment button below!

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