For the first time in a loooong time, my university has a snow day tomorrow! Hurray! It is days like these that make me realize how much I love living in Michigan, with our unpredictable snow and ice storms. Some people might hate them, but I am currently very grateful to have 12"+ of snow :)
Since I don't have school tomorrow, I really have no excuse not to write a blog post, especially since I haven't written one in...a while. It's not even like I was too busy and I didn't have time. It's more like, I'm a lazy fool who loves sitting around watching TV instead of doing the things I should be doing. Like, you know, writing blog posts. BUT I HAVE CHANGED! I have renounced my old ways of procrastination and laziness! I have taken up arms for the battle against sloth and gluttony!
Can you tell that I am also a little bit bored? I get dramatic when I am bored. Please forgive me: my imaginary scenarios make my life more interesting.
What am I going on about, you ask? Where am I going with this? I honestly just started writing this post in hopes that something would come to me...and something did! So here we go! The topic of today's post will be...laziness, and my never-ending battle against it.
It is a battle, believe me. This part I am not dramatizing. If I could do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, well then I would honestly do absolutely nothing all of the time. I love being lazy: sitting around watching TV and eating. Doesn't everyone? That's sort of why Netflix and Nutella are so popular...But this troubles me, and it is one of my least favorite traits about myself. I try my best to overpower it, but sometimes it is a struggle. It is only after periods of long vacation and relaxation that I find my laziness resurfacing and taking hold, kind of like a constricting snake, wrapping itself around me until I feel practically numb to everything else. Getting back in the grove of being motivated and doing things is difficult, but once I get started, I find that things get a little easier as I go. It all starts with getting up in the morning, at a reasonable time.
This topic came to mind because I am feeling particularly lazy right now, and it troubles me. So, to negate the laziness and begin shrugging off my winter break skin, I decided to write this post. Then I am going to go for a run tomorrow, and maybe have dinner with a friend. Baby steps, and before I know it, I'll be back in the groove of things.
People, myself included, often wonder why I keep myself so busy all of the time. At first, I myself didn't even know. But as I continue to grow and deepen my understanding of myself and why I do the things I do, I've figured it out. The main, but not the only reason that I keep myself so busy is because that is the only way I can keep myself moving along like a well-oiled machine. That is the only way I can get the motivation up to a high level and keep it there, so that I do not get choked by the constricting force of my natural laziness.
The more I do, the better I feel, and the better I feel, the more motivated I am to do even more. It is a semi-vicious cycle, but I'm figuring out how to handle it. And it has it's drawbacks: I find myself feeling guilty for having fun sometimes, because it feels like I shouldn't be wasting my motivation on such trivial things. I've discovered very recently that, in reality, being lazy is not always a bad thing. It is ok, even recommendable, to relax and unwind sometimes. I have learned that I just have to be cautious about when I relax, and for how long. If I'm not careful, I could spiral downwards into my unmotivated pit, and it will take even longer to climb myself out again.
This post turned out to be just as much about motivation as it is about laziness, I suppose. Sorry about that: sometimes my brain just does what it wants without me asking first. I just do the writing.
I guess one message you could take from this post would be to stay motivated. Not everyone suffers from my chronic laziness, but I know a lot of people do. What I'd recommend to cure the lazy-bones would be to simply start small. Make yourself get up no later than 9am. You'd be surprised the amount of things you can get accomplished before noon. Once you're up, maybe do a quick exercise routine: it will get you motivated to do things for the rest of the day. Once you think you're ready, text one of your friends, maybe somebody you haven't seen in a while, and set up plans for sometime in the week. I have noticed that if you make plans with someone else for the week, it's harder to back down. So you HAVE to do things! It's a great way to back yourself into a corner of motivation, really.
Maybe for this New Years, my resolution will be to stay motivated! And for all of you out there who are like me, good luck getting through the winter blues and staying perky as a peach! Best Wishes, Friends.
