What Was I Thinking?

It’s the second full week of the New Year. How does my body know that? About this time every year — without my consent — my body decides that I’m bear not a human. Hibernation begins to look so attractive.

I wake in the morning later than usual, and my first thought is when I’ll be able to visit my pillow again.

This morning, I decided to think about that. . . . What’s this living for the future? What’s this looking forward to sleeping? How many hours, how many days have I spent getting ready in the morning telling my brain to push out chemicals that said, “I don’t really want to be here.”?

I’ve taken over — banished that bear behavior. Now my brain is saying that “Mondays are time to reconnect with the folks I’ve not seen all weekend.” That sure makes getting up easier.

No more hibernation Mondays for this girl.

I’m a person, not a bear. I’m all about living this year.

Have you hibernating or wishing you could? How are you going to wake up this year?