A perfect day means different things to different people. Just as what constitutes happiness varies, what makes a day perfect also varies. However, one common denominator is the ability to derive satisfaction from the activities that one engages in during the day.
What I have come to understand is that it is easier to experience a perfect day as a kid than as an adult. I remember the days that waking up to meet my favorite meal during my childhood made the day absolutely perfect. I can say that eating my favorite food dictated my happiness during that period. But as adulthood came, it came with attendant challenges beyond just deriving perfectness in a day for eating one's favorite meal.
A perfect day for me is one in which I can keep myself out of the pressure of working and facing the accompanying stress. To balance my day as a perfect one, I remove work and financial burdens and replace them with relaxation and enjoyment with my loved ones.
I am the kind of person who has a plan for the next 24 hours of the day. I have scheduled time to read, sleep, blog, eat, and do other things. Just yesterday, I was telling my wife that I wish a day could be more than 24 hours. I mean, 24 hours is becoming inadequate for me to face my tasks. Attending to family, work, and studies in addition to blogging is a task, but it's something that I need to do.
If I can get a perfect day, it will be a day that I have nothing to worry about. A day that I would wake up anytime that my body felt like rising and not forcing myself to wake up with an alarm. This would be followed by eating my favorite breakfast, taking a bath, and returning to sleep. If there is anything that energizes and replenishes my soul, it is morning sleep. I sleep between the hours of 8 and 10 a.m. Any day I do that, the remaining hours of the day will be awesomely fascinating.
After waking up, I would have more solid foods (carbohydrates) like pounded yam and egusi soup. I would eat to satisfaction before turning to the television to watch movies and some news channels.
In the evening, I will take a walk around my street, visiting some friends in their shops. In the process, I will visit a restaurant to eat grilled catfish and a favorite drink. I will sure not be alone on such an outing. My wife and son will follow suit.
I will return home happily fulfilled.
The next thing is to engage with my phone for a few hours, having some drinks beside me as I navigate through my gadget to make posts and read national and global news. Watching a few comedy skits would sure light up my evening.
I will retire to bed afterwards and sleep like a baby. My day won't be perfect enough without money to answer any financial demand that comes my way from within and without. Nothing gives me joy like solving people's financial challenges as much as I am willing to. I derive happiness and satisfaction from doing so. Having money to make use of on such a day will make it perfect beyond anyone's imagination.
I just want to live the day without engaging my brain in the different levels of thinking that I always engage in.