20 March 2013

Kind of Blue

Sometimes I wake up after a dead-tired night at six in the morning. It would make sense for me to be spiritless and grumpy, but for some reason I’m not. I’m just up. For a while I ponder about the reason, the cause of my untimely awakening, but soon I give up. Is it important? In the eyes of a depth psychologist, maybe. For me, not so much. 

What’s more important is what I do next. Do I get up and get to work? Do I go out for a good morning walk? Do I stretch and exercise? They all sound like good deeds that I owe to myself, but of course, I don’t do any of them. This morning I got up and boiled water to pour over the contents of an unhealthy, sugary instant coffee stick.

I move to my desk and click the triangle button that starts the music player. Then I slide open the heavy wooden frame of my ancient window. A squeaky sound follows the motion and reveals a view over my neighborhood. Standing there, listening to Miles and sipping coffee-flavoured broth I see drowsy houses soon to be woken up by the sun.

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