Bonjour!
The moment you wake up in the morning; that stretch where you cannot open your eyes fully or feel your conspiring arms trying to lift you up, is probably the most lucid instant of the entire day. Those two seconds where no one can begin to contemplate anything other than two inches of sunlight in their eyes make every morning a new day.
What decides the course of your day, however, is unfortunately not this moment. No, that moment comes about half an hour later, around the time when you're stepping out of the bathroom and reaching for that coffee mug. When the cogs of your cognition suddenly whirr into action, and contemplate the day that went past, and using some complex method that I can only imagine is akin to the one they use at my office, forecasts your mood for the day.
Now, this mood does not make your day good or bad; how can it. What it does is change the little things you do; the skip in your step, the cheeriness of a “Good Morning!” or the look on your face when you think no one around you is looking. That moment is the reason people who’re curious enough to investigate that look (for people are ALWAYS looking) will come up to you and say one of two things:
1. My, you look happy today!
2. What happened? Is everything okay?
As the evening wanes though, the course of the day pretty much takes over, and your mood finally belongs to today. Do note, the reason you say either of these:
1. Let’s go out for pizza!
2. Where the hell is my dinner?
Is not that moment; but you can be sure it helped you get there.
So, if your moments are the kind where you generally choose the latter of the two responses, probably the best gift for you would be a blunt instrument to the back of the head every morning as soon as you pop out of the, well, pooper.
What decides the course of your day, however, is unfortunately not this moment. No, that moment comes about half an hour later, around the time when you're stepping out of the bathroom and reaching for that coffee mug. When the cogs of your cognition suddenly whirr into action, and contemplate the day that went past, and using some complex method that I can only imagine is akin to the one they use at my office, forecasts your mood for the day.
Now, this mood does not make your day good or bad; how can it. What it does is change the little things you do; the skip in your step, the cheeriness of a “Good Morning!” or the look on your face when you think no one around you is looking. That moment is the reason people who’re curious enough to investigate that look (for people are ALWAYS looking) will come up to you and say one of two things:
1. My, you look happy today!
2. What happened? Is everything okay?
As the evening wanes though, the course of the day pretty much takes over, and your mood finally belongs to today. Do note, the reason you say either of these:
1. Let’s go out for pizza!
2. Where the hell is my dinner?
Is not that moment; but you can be sure it helped you get there.
So, if your moments are the kind where you generally choose the latter of the two responses, probably the best gift for you would be a blunt instrument to the back of the head every morning as soon as you pop out of the, well, pooper.
Comments
Good post, though.
And of COURSE you won't :|
Oh, and Thanks ^_^