Archive - February 2016

So it’s rainy or cold or too dark outside this morning to wake up. Besides, your nose is stuffy. You’re still tired.

If you use an alarm clock, maybe you’ve hit the snooze twice already and you’re really, I mean really close to chucking the thing across the room. But you need to get up. Preferably now.

The hubs is nudging you, “Are you awake, honey?” or the kiddos need to be roused or else they’ll miss the bus and you’re going to be the reluctant chauffeur. Maybe you can’t stomach work or school or the obligations another day. Not today anyway, not the way you’re feeling. You seriously consider calling in sick. Maybe you wake up alone, or lonely. Or you’re still reeling about yesterday or how the night ended and you just can’t, absolutely CAN NOT, face another repeat. It’s been a string of days like this.

I’m in agreement, okay? Any one of these “gray” beginnings  makes the top of the list for a reason to pull the covers over your head and tell the world to fuck off. But here’s the upside to your self-imposed downside. And, yeah, sorry, this one is all on you. Why?

Because you FRIGGIN’ WOKE UP TODAY!

And that’s the number one reason to get out of bed. There’s plenty of people who didn’t get the chance to complain about the dark or the cold or the crying baby or the life sucking this or that. I’ll bet my last dollar that any one of those people, given the chance, just might trade this “I’m not feeling it” day with you.

Here’s 9 more reasons to consider before your feet hit the floor:

2. You have two feet to hit the floor.  No reminders from here but there are soldiers and accident victims and cancer survivors who don’t have any feet, or just one foot, or legs that don’t work without some assistance. Get Out of Bed.

3. You have an actual soft mattress to get out of and it’s probably covered in clean sheets and a pretty cover, maybe from Wayfair. You’re not asked to roll up the thin temporary bedding and place it at the end of the bunk, in a room you shared with fifty strangers. Get Out of Bed.

4. You have a place to put the bed. Not in a cardboard box or under a bridge or the back of a car. But a place with a roof, protected from the elements. Get Out of Bed.

5. You have a spouse or partner or dog or cat or goldfish or a plant dependent on you to get up. Chances are good that someone cares about you enough to want you to make coffee or water their roots, or let him out to pee (talking about the dog here people). Get Out of Bed.

6. You have food, or something edible in the refrigerator or cabinets. My mother declared she was not a short-order cook. She made oatmeal for breakfast or tea and toast and we ate it or starved. We didn’t starve. Get Out of Bed.

7. You have crusties in your two eyes or maybe just one good eye that needs water to splash open the windows to the world. If you’re near-sighted, far-sighted, color blind…no problem, join the club. You’ve probably got eyeglasses or contacts. I have blind relatives who would welcome the chance to take your blurry, correctable, lazy-eyed vision for a test drive. Get Out of Bed.

8.  You have places to go, people to see, things to do. If you say you don’t, then please, for the love of the Almighty, go somewhere, visit someone and do something today. Because you can. Get Out of Bed.

9. You have clothes to wear, shoes to put on your feet — ah, the feet again. Get Out of Bed.

10. You have excellent, or are in reasonably good health. If you are struggling today with medical issues, we (the reasonably healthy whiny ones) are sending you a special blessing for full and complete healing. But you are still alive. Please, Get Out of Bed.

Honor all the blessings — the ones we scoff at, take for granted and discount on the days when we just would rather roll over and snooze for a while longer. There will plenty of time for resting and lazying about when we’re…waiting at the drive thru. K? Get Out of Bed.

BE F-G AWESOME TODAY!

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