Suggestion before reading: quickly YouTube one, or both of the following songs:
”Strong” by London Grammar
”We Are Together” by Planet of Sound
Picture yourself jogging along Museum Road, the sun slowly coming up, not a person, not a car on the road.
Pretty nice, huh? Well, that experience is yours, for free.
Nah, I feel you though; I know how hard it is to wake up in the morning. It’s 6 a.m., and one of Apple’s captivating alarm tones goes off, immediately signaling to you that the British are coming, or even worse, interrupting your wet (soon to be) dream. Further providing you with the most exquisite blue balls you’ve ever experienced.
You think to yourself, “Dammit, Rachel Starr and Whoopi Goldberg will have to wait another night.”
How many promises have you made to your future self the night before? If only you had the will power to go through with it. Listen, it doesn’t mean you’re weak, or you’re lazy, or that you don’t value your life. We don’t need to wake up thanking God for this wonderful opportunity to live, but you need to find a way to convince yourself that the days of waking up at noon are over.
Because they should be.
You don’t need Adderall. Maybe you need 3 shots of espresso, but all you really need, is a good reason to get you up. It’s easy to say, but we all know the hardest part of waking up is that first few minutes. Your mind is telling you that the teacher won’t be taking attendance today, or that you can just crank out a few pushups and go back to sleep. Nah dawg, you’re getting your ass up today.
For the first few weeks I literally had to leave a cup of espresso and a note reading “You’re actually not that good looking” next to my phone in order to get up. Now, I don’t even need the espresso boost. I have a picture of Vince Vaughn in “Swingers” next to a picture of Vince Vaughn in “Dodgeball” and I just say to myself, “You’re not gonna get me, you fucking bastards,” and go on with my day.
Via: zeitgeistyreport.com
It’s tough. You get hammered on a Monday night and you’re too slammed to remember to eat something or chug a bottle of water, and you wake up feeling like your girlfriend sat on your face for way too long even though she knows you said the code word, but continued to enjoy herself regardless of your animated and lucid suffocation, in addition to your history of asthma.
But on a night you voluntarily go to sleep, you have no excuse not to wake up and enjoy the hours you’ve rarely gotten to see in the last 3 years.
I think that as we get older we’ll start to value our time a lot more than we do. And by our time, I mean, the time we truly have to ourselves. Where we can think and dream, and have nothing around us be a distraction. As students, we don’t often get moments like that. Get yourself to wake up by dawn just one time in the next week, and that will be all the motivation you need to do it again. Not because you have to, but because you fucking want to. While we’re not that old, yet, it will soon be difficult for us to create habits. This is a great start, and it will change your life.
If you plan on waking up for a run, here are some songs off my morning run playlist, appropriately titled “This will probably never happen again”.
•”Byegone” by Volcano Choir
•”Too Young to Burn” by Sonny & The Sunsets
•”Royals (The Weeknd Remix)” by Lorde
•”Let’s Come Down Together” by Joyride
•”Budapest” by George Ezra
•”Man on the Moon” by Phillip Phillips
Go out and do it.
Photo courtesy of: Speakupwny
