Blue Monday Or Third Monday Controversy: What Nigerians Say

Blue Monday, typically the third Monday in January is expected or believed to be the saddest day in a new year.

But if the dispositions of the many people we interacted with today in Lagos Nigeria is anything to go, then, nothing could be further from the trust.

In the first place, many of them confessed they knew nothing called Blue Monday.

Those who said they had heard, regard it as the highest form of pessimism to single out the third Monday in the New Year as saddest day.

“Generally I am an excited person and today has not been any different, said Timothy Adegbola, a pastor and computer operator.

“If there is anything like that, may be to other people, not me”, he said beaming with smiles.

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According to Andrew Adigun, it is a generalization that does not hold water for many other people.

“It is possible for people to experience chains of disappointments like loss of dear ones and challenging financial situation, but it may just be a coincidence today.”

He explained the spending spree that characterizes Christmas and New Year were indeed to make some people sad, to the point of suicide.

“I know a man who spent through his nose to ensure his people travelled during the yuletide. Now they are back, but the thought of the money gone may make him to remain sad the rest of the year”, he added.

For Toyosi Oladipupo, a Higher National Diploma (HND) student, “I am hearing about Blue Monday for the first time. Besides, as you can see, there is nothing around me that suggests sadness or tendency to harm myself”.

She said the fun of the Christmas and New Year celebrations had left no space for sadness or suicide.

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“Here, we usually look forward to Mondays being the opening day of the new week, this particular Monday the same.

“I am usually excited coming to school. There are new and fresh faces, and our lecturers are around to teach, so, nothing like Blue Monday for me”.

Testimony Sunday, another student the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) like Miss Oladipupo, said she had never had of blue Monday.

However she said seeing sad wall papers on her friend’s phone earlier in the day, actually made her downcast.

Generally, “I don’t think anyone should observe blue Monday, it is so weird”

According to Maclean Innocent, a National Diploma (ND) “Not really; in fact, there is no reason for me to regard today as a sad day.

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“We are humans. It is normal, we can be happy sometimes and sad at other times. Since we can celebrate happy moments, we can also celebrate sad ones”, intoned another who simply identified herself as Toyosi.

For Samuel”: I have not heard about it, and I don’t think there is any reason to mark it”.

Amidst the aforementioned enthusiasm that normally heralds the students Monday, being an active lecture day, one or two classes were upbeat with activities

The Eagle reports that out there, the feeling is real about Blue Monday, which people regard as most depressing.

Many factors have been attributed to these, some with somewhat convincing evidences, others outright conjectures.

However, the spendings that characterise Yuletide, usually leave many cash strapped beginning of the New Year.

A clash of other negative incidents tied around the period have combined to give credence to the feeling of Blue Monday.