It takes serious effort to enjoy traffic. It just might take every positive thought you can drum up to be happy about a Monday, the construction in the road, the commercials on the radio, and the thought of facing another work day with the same tasks as yesterday with the same people asking for the same things. Living every day like this, over and over, is hard. Trying not to live like this, without the day-to-day monotony eating you alive, is even harder.

I know because this Monday I was sitting in traffic, annoyed with the commercials on the radio, and not looking forward to going to work. I wasn’t looking forward to having the same old thing for lunch. I wasn’t looking forward to the drive home from work. I’d planned to absolutely not pick up my phone the entire way to work in an effort to detach myself from the addiction I mentioned last post, and all of it was just making me feel bored and annoyed.

I rolled down the window, and Muse came on the radio. It was the song Resistance. I decide to listen to it because there was nothing else on and I gave up flipping around the stations. I was ‘under’ in this moment, and that is to say, I was not aware. I was getting sucked into the monotony of the week and I hate it when that happens. I start spiraling downwards into the life sucks song and dance that played so often in my early twenties and teenage years. I realized very quickly that I needed something to pull me out of this, and that is when that part in the song comes on. You know the part.

Love is our resistance, they’ll keep us apart and they won’t stop breaking us down.

Those are the lyrics in that part of the song. I thought to myself, MONIQUE! Love is the answer! Love is the resistance to all of this crazy frustration that is weighing you down in this Monday moment. Love is our resistance to anger, to monotony, to ‘do this’ or ‘do that’, feel this or feel that, buy this, read that. It was a grand feeling! Right there at the intersection of Venice and Robertson! Imagine that? I felt so much better after that, knowing that because I had love in my being, I could resist all that was attempting to break down my spirit. YOU GO, LOVE! AND YOU GO, MUSE!

And while it takes constant effort throughout the day to remember love, and remember kindness, and remember joy when you’re in the middle of a boring lunch or some minute task, it’s worthwhile effort because it nourishes the soul. And we mustn’t forget it. Even Amy Poehler gets it. (Thank you Mashable).

I hope you’re having a great week NOT letting the mundane get you down. Look in the mirror and keep on shining, as Rihanna would say. (That was my last musical reference I promise). And to the rest of the week I say, I can’t wait to get to know you.

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Monique Muro

Monique is an exceedingly happy human from LA. She runs the blog A Novel Quest, and writes. A lot.

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