The Worst Day of the Year

Don’t panic.

The good news is that the worst day of 2015 is already behind us

I had an interesting chat with a colleague during lunch the other day and she told me that someone has attempted to calculate the worst day of the year.

According to this calculation it’s the last Monday in January. The first time the worst day of the year was calculated, the last Monday in January happened to be the 24th and that is my poor colleague’s birthday, which is why she stumbled upon this calculation in the first place.

Deeply impressed by this magnificent idea, I googled “worst day of the year” and found even a wikipedia entry about it (God, I just LOVE wikipedia, I should donate to them again (did so twice already)).

The calculation of the worst day of the year is more than conclusive: distance from X-mas and time of realization of failed new year resolutions, distance to the next holiday, distance to pay check, bad weather conditions (at least in the northern hemisphere), general motivation and frustration level. Yes, indeed, that points to some bleak end of January day.

But, for me personally not Monday but Tuesday is the worst day of the week. The same rationale applies here. On Monday mornings I am still too shocked by my alarm clock to refuse its ringing, and pleasant memories of the weekend lurk into the Monday blues. On Tuesdays however, I get out of bed the worst, the next weekend is yet so far away, the previous weekend’s influence has volatilized.

So, the worst day of the year is not the last Monday of January but the last Tuesday! This year it was the 27th of January.

I wonder why this worst day of the year thing has not gone more viral (or has it and I missed it)? Hey, isn’t that a marketing niche? Extra chocolate to overcome the worst day of the year, for example? But alas, Valentine is too close which, at least in Japan, drowns you in chocolate and its marketing, darn.

Nevertheless, as mentioned before, the good news is that this year’s worst day of the year is already history. February is so nicely short and when it comes to March there’s spring around the corner (and hay-fever, gosh!)

In the future, I shall be aware of the worst day of the year and celebrate it somehow, by, for example, booking the next holidays…

And here is the wikipedia article about what they call the blue Monday….

Cheers!