Wanted: Morning Picker-Upper

For the past weeks, or say several months, I have been having difficulty waking up early. 9am would already be a challenge and 10am or 11am would just be perfect. However, if totally undisturbed and tired, I’d wake up at 12nn or 1pm. Most of the time, I would wake up because my starving stomach forces me to do so. Other times, an early morning phone call from my parents or a random text message would do the trick. Either way, it has been quite difficult to get up.

I guess I just don’t have a reason to wake up early anymore. Two years ago, I would wake up early morning just to line up at the NBI office at Quezon City. I would sleep at 12mn and easily get up at 4am. Year after that, I would get up for my 7:30am Finance class, although I still end up arriving a few minutes late mainly because I don’t like Finance enough. The summer after that, I would happily wake up at 5am to wrestle with fellow MRT commuters and to arrive before 8am for my OJT in Citibank Makati. However, that habit did get really tiresome one week towards the end. Last year, I would get up, with determination, with the sunrise for early morning jogs around school. I discovered a lot during those times and even made friends with one of the security guards.

Unfortunately, I no longer have those now. I could wake up late in the afternoon or sleep early in the morning and not worry about anything. I don’t have classes to attend to or work (at least not a formal fixed-time one) to go to. I also don’t have a reason to jog anymore.

*sigh*

This is what graduation and freedom does to people—making them lost without a reason */wrist*

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However, today’s definitely different.

It’s 3:51 am and I’m wide awake, not because I haven’t slept yet (as what has been happening recently) but because I have just woken up. I’m actually headed for the mountains later for my first climb after 3 months. I had no training whatsoever because, as I mentioned earlier, I was too lazy for early morning jogs.

Either way, I love this feeling. I should definitely find a strong reason for getting up early everyday.

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So, as the coffee commercial says, what gets you up in the morning?

Cheers to early mornings!