Did you know that many cultures and religions consider Sunday as the first day in the week, not the last one?

We, the hard working people in western countries, or in those countries that tend to be a part of the western world, consider Monday as the start of our working week. Friday is the end of working week to the most of us, so Saturday and Sunday are considered as weekend (in my own case).

The organizing of working weeks and weekends also depends on influence of certain religion on some country.

For example, in Christian world, the Sunday is considered as non-working day, in Jewish culture their weekend ends on Saturday and in the Muslim world, they mostly celebrate Friday.

But in old mythologies and pagan religions, people were resting on the day when they celebrated the deity of Sun.

In Ancient Greece such a day was start of the week and not it's end. Ancients Greeks and Egyptians first had 7-days week and Romans took that system from them and gave the name to each of days in a week by the names of seven planets from Hellenistic mythology. Old Germanic peoples adopted their system but changed the names by their deities. In Slavish languages, names of days in week don't depend on names of old gods, but on their positions in a week.

I'll give you examples from my own language, Croatian:

Wednesday - Srijeda - Literally Middle, because it's in the middle of working week.
Friday - Petak - Literally Fifth day, and number said all in this case.
Sunday - Nedjelja - Literally "NO-WORK".

No matter where you are or which language do you speak, if you are a hard working person, you deserved to have your Sunday.

But in modern world, Sunday lost it's meaning.

Money became more important than resting. So today is Sunday, but I already visited shopping center and bought some things which means that today is not non-working Sunday. I'm one of those lucky guys who don't have to work on Saturdays and Sundays.

I was always trying to have more sleep than usual on Sundays and have some decent rest, but on Sundays I have the only opportunity to work some things around the house. But still, a day has 24 hours and I want to seize this day too spend it by relaxing with my family. And you should, too!

###Thank you!