When I'm having a depressive bout, I find it so hard to get up in the morning. I can't think of anything to get out of bed for, or to look forward to.
Fortunately, I'm not having a depressive bout right now, but I'm wondering..
Why do you get up in the morning?
Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
Because if I do not, the dogs will pee on the rug.
Yes, sometimes it comes to that.
Not very uplifting.
Hmf.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Because eventually my brother pounding on the door yelling at me outbalances the comfort of the bed.
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Hatrack beckons.
<sings> Danny boy, the threads, the threads are calling...
Posted by MoonRabbit (Member # 3652) on :
Because my cat head-butts me in the ribs until I either get up or fall on the floor.
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Well, I don't have a dog, but I drink a lot of water. So often my bladder wakes me up before the alarm or comes awake when the alarm goes off. If I don't get up, I'll pee the bed.
There's also the fact that my partner is someone who needs some help from me to get through her morning stuff - if I don't get up, I mess her up.
Most of the time, there really is something to look forward to at work - I like what I do. If it's a hard day, I'll shuffle my priorities and work on something that will give my some quicker emotional payoff than other stuff on my "in" pile.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
The kids do have to be fed and gotten to school. I think there's a law or something.
Failing that, what Bob said!
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Because the human species is sprinting headlong toward extinction and I'm trying to beat it to the finish line and head it off before it gets there.
And there are lots of people who need taking care of, too, all the while. And lots of cats. They are counting on me.
But really the reason I do it is because it's fun. There is so much to see and do and experience. So much breathtaking beauty and so many amazing things that I never imagined. So much raw truth. So much love. It's quite a roller coaster ride sometimes but I wouldn't miss it. Posted by dangermom (Member # 1676) on :
Because the baby just woke up and is demanding breakfast from her crib. And DangerGirl, age 3, has just showed up and decided that she belongs in the middle of the bed...but she hasn't gone to the bathroom yet. Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Mooselet taps me on the arm until I wake up. Once I do, he helpfully informs me that I am awake.
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
So, for most of us, it's Duty. For others, there is Pleasure and Anticipation.
I, too, have a wee one who demands her breakfast. However, it is a pleasure for me to feel her arms around my neck and fix her food. Making my daughter breakfast has become a very important part of my day.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
It's only duty at 6:50 A.M. (which I realize isn't early for everyone, it's just that Mooselet is more consistent than an alarm clock). Later, it would be by choice -- that choice just doesn't arrive any more. Also, I find both pleasure and anticipation in my duties as husband and father, so they needn't be non-overlapping categories. Not so much pleasure or anticipation in the taking out the trash part, though.
--Pop
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
I would post something in here but it would only provide ammunition to Lalo and his increasingly childish insults.
Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
My answer was flippant ('because the dogs will pee on the rug'), but in essence, true. I get up out of bed, even when I don't want to, out of duty. I feel like Frederick from the Pirates of Penzance sometimes (Duty!). If I don't take the dogs out, they will suffer. Christopher (that Boy I made with a little bit of help from that Man I Married ) can get himself ready for school, and the Man leaves for work before I get up, but the dogs need to go potty, and I'm the only one who can help them.
I also like my job, and enjoy the people I interact with throughout the day. I love my family, and they keep me together while pulling me apart. All of these things make the day worth getting up for. Also, I hate being left out, so my nosiness is only rewarded if I actually get out into the world. How else am I going to learn that my coworker's neighbor has family problems or which instructor's spouse is leaving for Iraq?
I love life. It's full of interesting stories.
Even if I didn't have responsibilities, I put the book I am currently reading on the kitchen counter before I go to bed. I can't lay in bed reading if the book is on the kitchen counter!
Oh, and coffee. Sweet, sweet morning elixir. Mmm...
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Duty is just a gift you give so often, and so regularly, that it comes to be expected. But it's still a gift every single time. Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Because I love the people I'm with, I love my life, and I love myself.
Posted by jexx (Member # 3450) on :
Aw, ak, that was really nice.
I will try and remember that every time I get bummed about duty. You have really put a tool in my 'feel better' toolbox! Thank you for THAT gift!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I wake up because I love life.
I get out of bed in the morning because there's no microwave in the bedroom, and my boss still won't let me work from home.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
[derail] Pop's post reminded me of something that happened when my niece (now 14) was an infant.
The neighbor's kid (about 2 years old, I think) was visiting. He came over to my BIL, and said, "Baby crying, baby crying!"
BIL checked, and the baby was fast asleep in her little baby seat. He said, "No, she's sleeping, see?"
2 year old peered at baby, hit her (to the aghast shock of BIL) -- she started screaming, of course -- and then repeated, "Baby crying, baby crying!"
[/derail]
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Because I usually desperately have to wee.
Posted by Mintieman (Member # 4620) on :
I get up because, I simply dont think theres enough time to do everything I want to do in my life, but I'll be damned if I dont give it a shot anyway
Posted by Anti-Chris (Member # 4452) on :
I think I just get up out of habit and boredom.
That and classes that I'm paying for.
Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
For that first step outside...when you realize that it's a new day and anything can happen.
Not much makes me happier than a light breeze on a bright day, but rain, heat, snow, sleet, and fog all have their own particular beauties.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
If I don't absolutely *have* to get up, I get up because I can't sleep any more.
Posted by Dude Love (Member # 2437) on :
I have a brother who does everything he does for only one reason--he's tired of whatever he was doing before.
He gets up because he's tired of lying in bed. He'll get of from dinner because he's tired of chewing. He'll watch TV because he's tired of being online. He'll go online because he's tired of watching TV. He goes to bed becase he's tired of being awake.
It's an odd existance, to act only in order to avoid other action, never for the action itself.
As for me, why do I get up in the morning?
If I had a reason, I wouldn't be scouring this thread for one.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Music and the threads that connect me to someone.
Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :
I get out of bed in the morning because it's pretty damn hard to get rid of the morning wood while you're lying in bed.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*blearily* Coffee. Definitely coffee.
Is it done brewing NOW?
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
quote:I would post something in here but it would only provide ammunition to Lalo and his increasingly childish insults.
Heh. Man, Glynn. I promise I'm not deliberately targetting you for jokes -- I just scan the Foobonic "Recently Commented" section every so often, and when there's an exchange like this:
quote:Picture's title: Oh yeah, this is almost a year ago. Bad hair + no shave = Bad lookin' Glynn
Response to picture: From: ) (Feb 04, 2004 21:40 PST) personally, i think it's just the weird green shirt...*makes a face*
It's just begging for a comment like "No, no, it's definitely his face."
I'm not saying you're ugly, just taking advantage of a clear-cut opportunity to make a joke. A joke which your charmingly insecure self will edit out seconds after I make it anyway.
If it makes you feel better, once I get a digital camera, the poor Internet's going to be flooded with pictures of my face. Feel free to make all the jokes you want -- they're not hard to make, and I like to believe I'm secure enough to handle some friendly kidding.
And yes, my joke was nothing more than friendly kidding. Honestly. I don't like you much, but I certainly hold no malicious intent toward you.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
*patpats Lalo*
All of my morning classes have attendence policies. On top of that, I've started waking up at 5:30 in the morning without an alarm going off or anything, and I can't get back to sleep, so I can either lie in bed and think myself to death or get up and be productive. Or something.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
eeeww, pictures of Lalo's face?
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Jenny, I know that feeling of just wanting to stay in bed very well.
I get up mostly out of duty when I'm in those bouts, because I need to get the kids out of bed and off to school. Usually because only then can I go back to bed in peace.
I actually went through a period of time where I did that, I'd get the kids on the bus, then go back to bed and sleep a few more hours, only to get up and fix lunch for the little ones and then nap on the couch.
Life is so much better now that I actually do get out of bed in the morning, stay up with my kids, and actually participate in life. I've found that being awake on the downstairs couch talking to my twins early in the morning is something I now look forward to, instead of dreading.
So to answer the question - I now get up and participate in life because the alternative doesn't appeal to me anymore.
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
Does anyone else get the impression Kama, through repeated, failed attempts at sounding scornful, is trying to tell me she has a monster crush on me?
Shh, my darling, our love should not, can not be. Despite our sighs of passion and gasps of lust, despite our pledges of love and vows of eternity, though our love be single -- our lives be seperate. Not just seperated by different continents, but by different worlds. I would not, could not have our passion postponed until the death of summer -- it should drive me mad, my Kama. No, let us say adieu while we may still look at each other without tears blurring our visions of each other's perfection and turn our minds to lesser matters of the cruel world. For who would envy Tantalus his forever forbidden fruits? Not I, love, and my heart should be rent asunder should you seek a love that the gods themselves have damned to less than a fleeting vision of Paradise. No, my Kama, my life, my love, let us share one last kiss of unfulfilled promise and unbridled passion and turn, walk away, live for lesser beings and pettier matters, and devote our attention to the futile hope of forgetting that we ever loved so deeply, with such promise.
One last kiss, love, to imbed the torture of your beauty in my memory, and let us part as halved hearts beating a strained rhythm through bodies forever doomed to unfulfillment and misery for so long as the two remain twain.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Don't believe him, Kama. Aside from two word changes (and the name), he said the same exact thing to me.
I've never gotten over it.
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
If I didn't, I couldn't go to bed at night.
Posted by shadowmaker (Member # 6155) on :
I usually get up because an alarm is screaming at me
Posted by Ela (Member # 1365) on :
I get up in the morning cause I have to go to work. On mornings I don't have to work, I sleep late, don't set the alarm, and just get up whenever I wake up.
I love sleeping late. Posted by Sachiko (Member # 6139) on :
I get up because our children get into bed with poopy diapers and crawl across my face. It's better (or worse) than smelling salts.
Sometimes it backfires, though, and I lie in bed even longer because I'm knocked out by the fumes.
Also, I make sure before I go to bed that I have something to look forward to for the next day, be it a clean house to wake up to, a new book, working out, or coming here. Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Child. Cat. Potty. Coffee.
Not necessarily in that order.
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
Generally what mack said, although for some reason I do actually get up for work on Saturday despite my better judgement.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I do not need an alarm clock. i seem to get up automatically at 8 whether i want to or not. then i can roll over and sleep some more or if i have to work at around 3 i can just say, well, i got to have some free time to myself. I hate mornings. everyone wakes up and makes noise.
Posted by Zotto! (Member # 4689) on :
I don't get up. I get down, baby.
Posted by Jerryst316 (Member # 5054) on :
Ok, this is going to sound sappy but I heard this once and I totally agree. I see life as consisting of two parts; the part that is and the part that should be. I always get up for the part that should be!
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
When I get home from work in the morning, I go to bed right away because that is usually the quietest part of the day--normal people are at work or class. I get up because a) it's time to go back to work, b) I can't sleep anymore, c) ER is on. I am victim to those "depressive moods" but I live alone and nothing can't wait until tomorrow.
[edit to reduce redundancy]
[ February 08, 2004, 07:38 PM: Message edited by: fiazko ]
Posted by Chaeron (Member # 744) on :
I really don't know. Alot of the time I just don't.
Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :
I've been in this bed since I was six.
Thank God I have a laptop. ..
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
quote:Why do you Get Up in the Morning?
I'm not sure why it happens, but I hear morning wood's actually quite normal. Maybe something to do with needing to use the bathroom?
Though I still feel oddly guilty if I find it upon wakening from a dream about, say, my brother.
Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
That's just dirty man.
Posted by Leonide (Member # 4157) on :
the previous poster is my reason Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :
Hmm.
I work nights. So, when I get home, I'm usually tired and proceed directly to bed. I wake up and usually just go back to sleep after I turn over or something; I repeat such process until either I hurt, or I actually don't want to sleep anymore. Eventually getting up, before I need to do anything.
Posted by Ben (Member # 6117) on :
* Music
* the fact that i have faith in the world that i will encounter somebody new or have somebody currently in my life remind me that life is worthwhile. not in such a blunt fashion but more in things they say and do, and observations of hte world they make. it really is a selfish way to look at it but its true. and it's rarely failed me.
[ February 09, 2004, 06:18 AM: Message edited by: Ben ]
Posted by Maccabeus (Member # 3051) on :
I too go to bed in the morning rather than getting up.
Sometimes I don't get up. At least, not till almost time to go to work. Some days I really am just miserably tired. Others, I'm sad to say I really don't feel there's a point to getting up. Three years struggling to make ends meet takes its toll, especially when it's not how you expected to spend your life.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
I hate getting up in the morning. I sleep in until the last possible moment I can before work.
I feel like I'm chronically sleep deprived even when get 8-9 hours of sleep a night. I suspect my body really needs about 10 hours/day but that would be spending almost half my day asleep.
How difficult it is to wake up (when I have to work) partly depends on how much ambient light is in the room. One of those Sunrise clocks is on my wish list.
The other thing is the temperature. During the day from Fall until Spring I am always cold, no matter how many clothing layers I wear. The only time I'm actually at my comfort level of warm is when I'm snuggled under the covers in a cocoon. It does help when Steve raises the temperature to 70 on the thermostat, but I'm still always cold.
Did I mention I hate getting up in the morning?
AJ
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
Eww, kissing Lalo?
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Someone has to!
Actually, morning is my time with Thomas. That's enough for me.
(edit to say the initial portion of the post is in response to why I get up in the morning, not kissing Lalo. Sorry dude.)
[ February 09, 2004, 10:53 AM: Message edited by: TheTick ]
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
During the week I get up because if i don't I get suspended from school.
On the weekends, I get up to write in the quiet before the storm (parents and siblings.)
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
The other morning I woke up to my 2-yr-old giving me a romantic little kiss on the lips. . . That's how his Daddy wakes me up. . . . . Someone's gonna have to talk to that boy.
[ February 09, 2004, 12:28 PM: Message edited by: PSI Teleport ]
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I get up because...
1) bladder full
2) coffee!!
3) and because NOT getting up gets boring really really fast. Just lying in bed doing nothing has no appeal to me....
Farmgirl
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
I get up because my dormroom matress hurts if i sleep in too long, cause if i don't finish these classes, I'm never goingto get to do what i REALLY want, and cause i'm tired of wasting time sleeping.
Ni!
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
quote: Why do you get up in the morning?
Good queastion
...
Really it is mostly because I still live at home, so someone is usually telling em to get up.
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
Coffee and work. I usually leave the house at 3:30 to 4:00am, and then go to school until about 6:30pm. Wonderful life. At least I don't work or have school on weekends. Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
If I got up in the morning, I guess I'd have a valid answer to the prompt, but being as I awoke at 11:14, I guess I don't.
Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :
I get up so I can set my alarm back another half-hour and then go back to sleep.
But really, there's something utterly distressing about those first few minutes after the alarm goes off, when I know I have to get up but my bed is calling, calling to me. Once I'm awake, though, I have no problem -- I even like mornings. (Though, in college I'd sometimes go back to bed for a couple of hours after my first class in the morning.)
I'm thinking of getting a Sunrise clock like AJ mentioned, but I feel guilty buying something that is essentially a light on a dimmer for on the order of $100. Especially if it might not even work very well.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
there was a thread on those clocks a while back. They are actually brighter than normal lights, with a wider spectrum. I really do need one come next winter, though now that the days are getting longer again I'm not having as much of a problem. As I recall I found a site online where they were really Cheap.
AJ
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
"Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning, Oh! How I'd love to remain in bed For the hardest blow of all is to hear the bugler call: 'You've got to get up, you've got to get up, You've got to get up this morning!'"
Someday I'm going to murder the bugler Someday they're going to find him dead I'll amputate his reveille and stomp upon it heavily And spend the rest of my life in bed!
From "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" Words and Music by Irving Berlin, 1918.
Posted by Valkyrie (Member # 5980) on :
honestly i dont know why i bother to get up at all
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