Getting Up

Does life get any better than this? 

  So there I was watching Wake Up Sid for the upteenth time. A hindi film about a rich carefree kid who has no who has no sense of responsibility or obligation starring the much loved Ranbir Kaboor. I do admire him so to put it in the simplest of terms, but he's not the hero of this post. The hero here or rather heroine here is a young aspiring writer named Aisha Banerjee who just traveled to the big city from a small town in order to pursue a career in writing. She meets Sid and despite their differences and his lay back style become friends.

  What most amazed me was Aisha who I portrayed myself as her in my head. I had this fantasy that I was that struggling young girl armed with nothing but a dream.  It takes a great deal of courage to step out into the world all on your own. I admired her bravery to travel off to some distance land with nobody by her side fighting off the constant bundles thrown her way from finding a apartment to securing a job and no shoulder to cry on when times got tough. All it needed a different language from her own that she had to learn to make the story anymore dramatic really. At least in my head it was.

  I was so excited though, I've found my muse. That girl represented everything I ever though of. I wanted to change to become more like her. I slept that night with the joy in my heart and biggest smile on my face. For tomorrow I was to begin.

  Fast forwarding the epic episodes of my life a year Another late night dwelling in front of the television checking what's on and what's new and Wake Up Sid was just beginning on my only hindi channel. So I started watching it, what's another two hours into the wee hours of morning so watch it I did. Halfway through the movie I remembered I had planned to mature and get my life in order., I was asking myself "What Happened?" ..Oh yeah I got sidetracked with updating my IPod or color coordinating my hair bands or something just as time consuming.

  As I was pondering over my lack of wall and self control, I realized I was more like Sid than Aisha. In fact I was more like Sid than anybody else I knew. I was lazy, just like him. I didn't know how to do anything on my own, just like him and if I ever got a roommate I'd probably leave my things all over the place, just like him  and my idea of a day was hanging around ten feet from the comfort of my bed only getting up when hungry and I most likely wouldn't refuse meals in bed if it was available. I was like him in every sense except maybe my father wouldn't try to bride me with a new car to take part in the family business. He was a Lazy Rich Bum and I was just a Lazy Bum. Basically I lacked any self discipline.

  So now I've developed a just do it attitude. Don't think, Don't ponder, Just go for it. I call it the three D's. Dream, Determination, Dedication.So this is how works.Anytime I get a positive thought, An idea to change a bad habit into a good one, Anytime I just want to change my lifestyle I get up and just do it, Without a second thought.That prevents me from second guessing and talking myself out of it. And so far so good. I've been practicing this for 20 mins so far and that's why I'm typing this in my pjs at 5:53 am after I woke up for my bathroom break.And now I was going to to get back to the comfort of my warm bed for a few hours and hope this level of inspiration last to morning but it's already morning and i'm trying to not sleep in.

   

Yeah Yeah, I'm getting up already.

   

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