**TL;DR Wednesday is the only day of the week not accompanied by faint feelings of dread and disappointment** Thank god it’s Friday, right? Wrong. Put aside the sizeable complaints of those in customer service who have been constantly stuck with the weekend shift for years; to the detriment of any social life and diminishment of their ability to suffer fools. Imagine a school week or a nine to five, forty hour working week. There’s a routine, for better or for worse. You know precisely when you’ll be free (to deal with your responsibilities outside of paid employment). You can plan. But then come Monday you have this stretching; crawling, yawning expanse of time that needs to pass before you can finally make good on that plan. There are (in this scenario) five days to get through. Knowing this it’s hard not to start measuring time passed as a percentage of that total. It’s obviously possible to numerically quantify it, but in reality our experience of the passage of time is so subjective that a slow day can feel eternal and at its end like three days rather than one. All the more frustrating that you’re still only 20% into the week. It feels like you’ve been cheated, somehow. And then it’s Friday and the shadow of the next working week looms large, far eclipsing the pleasure of freedom. A particularly cynical person would contend that there’s only really one day off because Sunday is mostly preparing for Monday, anyway. That’s taking it a bit far. The best part of the week is the tipping point: when it’s just closer to the end than the start. The key to making the most of your time is living more in the present moment than in anticipation of another…for us mere mortals though, the pleasure of anticipation is seductive. Perhaps the anticipation itself is what makes the event so disappointing. That doesn’t really matter, though. If every day felt like a Wednesday I would be much more enthusiastic.

**TL;DR- The whole 'tipping point' of the week argument is one I found very interesting, and agree with. However, I think that largely, the best day of the week varies not only between different people, but different periods of your life.** When I was in college, my favourite day was Thursday, with my extra long break between lessons and a new episode of my TV show coming out weekly. It has changed countless times since then, and now it's definitely Saturday- no lectures, plenty of food, cleaning all done yesterday. I expect my favourite day will change hundreds of times more; people's lives are so unpredictable, with things changing all the time. Until you settle into a more structured lifestyle (in retirement or in a steady job for example), your best day of the week is bound to change all the time. You could be working multiple jobs, over weekends etc, with your favourite day being the least busy day at work, and then skip ahead a few years, you're working a 5 day week, and like a large portion of the population, you love Friday best. Even outside of work, for example if you went out to meet a friend usually on the same day- that may become your best day of the week, even if it wasn't necessarily the weekend. Everyone's best day of the week will change a lot throughout their lives, Monday could be your least favourite one day, and then you may look back and laugh at how this time 5 years ago you hated it. However, Friday is definitely overrated, especially if it doesn't mean a break for everyone. I remember working weekend jobs and while lots of people cheered for the weekend, I definitely dreaded it!

**TL;DR: Wednesday is 'hump-day' and therefore not the best day of the week but actually the worst.** In the 1950's the expression 'hump-day' was coined as Wednesday became known as the overwhelming peak of the work-week. It's the hardest day of the 5-day week because it is in the middle. There are no fresh feelings of determination and motivation that occur on Monday and Tuesday, and there are no feelings of reward that come from nearing the end on a Thursday and Friday. Therefore, one feels stuck in limbo on a Wednesday, being neither here nor there. So, Wednesday is the longest day of the week... metaphorically and also literally (as it is 9 letters).

**Sunday is the best day.** For me, Sunday is undeniably the best day of the week. Its relaxing and stress-free and regularly reminds me of lazy afternoons back at home. It’s a perfect end to the week and also the perfect way to get ready for the week ahead, big lunches, long walks and movies in front of the fire are just some of the reasons why.

**Thursday is definitely the best day, hands down** Thursday is definitely the best day because you still have time to revel in how the weekend is nearly here, but there is still time left in the week to accomplish things that need to be done before Friday. For me if it gets to Friday or beyond Friday and I have left something out that needed to get done for work, I spend a lot of the weekend thinking about it and it kind of ruins it. But Thursdays still offer much hopeful time for solutions, and time to be excited for the weekend! Also on Thursdays if you have accomplished lots during the first half of the week you know you can take it easy on Friday, and can go to sleep feeling chilled out !

Interesting topic of choice :-) While Wednesday is often considered the 'middle of the week' by quite a few people, other people know it as [*'Little Saturday'*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Saturday).