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How do you get out of bed when you would rather so much to stay in it?

Your morning alarm rings loudly from your iPhone or alarm clock, if you actually still own a traditional alarm clock. For what seems like a few moments, your tired eyes stay firmly shut as it sounds five minutes later to remind you that you really need to get up and out of bed. You settle into your blankets until that third alarm starts to ring loudly in your ears. At this point, if you are like me and set five or six alarms to ensure you will eventually arise from your cosy cocoon of blankets and perform your daily tasks, you pull back the covers of your bedding and blankets reluctantly to exit the comfort of your own bed to prepare yourself to go to work. You pause as your toes wiggle in the carpet as you start to sit up in bed.

Do you really need that job?

That’s the phrase you mutter as the rest of your stands up sleepily, putting on one of outfits you picked out the night before. Once you settle on the more comfortable outfit for the day, you sit in front of your mirror and open up your make-up case. Part of you wants to take your sweet time in putting on your make-up mask to waste your time, while the other half of you rushes to look presentable for your daily obligations.  It’s a hard balance to strike.

Somehow, you find yourself in your car to go to work.

Driving to work, you sleepily decide whether it would be better if you went to your normal work obligation or to just keep driving. You know you need the money, and it would be rude to neglect your obligations, but work is not always something you look forward to sometimes. If you are having a good week, you do not question heading to work and following the same path you always take. A bad week may have you questioning going back to the daily grind. You go back and forth on the highway as you drive.

Then, you arrive at your destination.

Sitting in your car in the office parking lot. , you debate your options. Do you get up out of the driver’s seat and go into your office? Do you turn the key in the ignition and drive off to do something more exciting or back to home to crawl back into your bed and fall straight to sleep? Hell, there are some days where it seems like it would be so much easier to just sit in your car instead of exiting it. A normal person would just park their car, pull the key from the ignition, and get out. Sometimes, especially if you are not having the best week, you question if going through the day to day is worth it.

Let’s say for argument’s sake you get out and enter your office. Now what?