perk up!

okay, so msg is kinda dragging around here this morning, and it made me start thinking about the whole experience of being tired. i don't mean like, "i'm tired of so-and-so's crap," kind of tired, but just having the yawny sleepy-sleeps at night or the draggy don't-wanna's when the alarm wakes you up in the morning.

and i have to say, i'm really lucky when it comes to being tired.

first off, there's only a couple of situations where i end up truly exhausted, and not to gloat, but they're almost always totally worth it.

second off, i've never ever got anyplace to be in a rush, or anything i've just got to get up and do. so when the alarm wakes me up in the morning, that's because it's waking him up in the morning, and i can just mumble and yawn and go back to sleep, or grumble and yawn and go back to sleep if the alarm makes me really cranky.

so, you know, even though i'm naturally a very sympathetic person, my life experience doesn't give me a ton of reason to feel sorry for my poor sweet boy when he's complaining about being tired. if it's night-time, i'm like, "so go to sleep!" and if it's morning, i'm like, "perk up!"

because the thing is, being tired usually has a totally great resolution if you just let it.

i mean, if i've gotten myself really worn out, then lying in bed under the snuggly covers and floating off into dreamland is even easier than normal -- and feels great! and if i wake up tired and for some reason am not in a position to just go back to sleep, that just gives me the chance to kick off my day on an immediate upswing: "ugh! yuck! so tired!" followed by "all righty, let's get going!" followed by some quick stretchy-stretching and a few toe bounces and stuff, followed by, "yes! pow! so much better!"

probably a lot of people would find my relationship with tiredness annoying or maybe enviable. but i bet, honestly, if they just worked on their own relationship with being tired -- maybe get some couple's counseling for it -- they'd find out that in many cases, actually, being tired is the bomb.

try it! i dare you!