Jet Lag
6:47am and I am up! Not because I have somewhere to be, but because my body is in a struggle between what was and what is. As I wake up trying to figure out if it’s 6:47am or 12:47pm I adjust my focus on the little desk clock that striking flashes 6:47. I believe it too knows that I am in the struggle and laughs at my disgust with is unknowing truth. I dare not bother to stretch because I know I’m going back to sleep, but the need for sleep was losing this match with my need to start a new day. I get up with rage begin my journey to the bathroom to find that I’m spiraling head first into my dresser. Thank God for agility and curse the cord to my charger lies in the same phrase. I need to shake this feeling…I need to shake it now.
That feeling of irritability, lack of concentration (which had me doing more than what I wanted to because I kept forgetting what I had to do), fatigue, a large dose of insomnia, and I already mentioned irritability. I believe….no I know that I am suffering from JET LAG and boy was the LAG part real. I tried to oversleep and that didn’t work I was still functioning on Greece time. I thought staying up the whole plane ride would work, but that just made it worse. Thanks Google for the hopeless advice notes. I’m just severely lagged and worse, useless to myself and the world around me. I’m shocked I have the attention span to develop this post…wait….you can’t hear the amount of curse words that push through every time I misspell an easy word. I now know that jet lag is no joke!
This usually self-diagnosed issue left me pondering. Do we experience jet lag more than is realized. No not the one that is caused by lengthy travel and hopping between different time zones. The disruption of the internal bodies desire to push forward in ones pursuit of their dreams. Like jet lag one fights for sleep, but lacks the ability to do so. This happens when we lag behind in going forward and reaching goals. Making excuses and dismissing our internal thoughts of achieving desirable outcomes. As your mind struggles to cope with the new schedule or delayed ambition; temporary fatigue, irritability, and an impaired ability to concentrate sets in creating a space of laziness and the lack of resilience. The changed in your thoughts causes confusion and disoriented views as it attempts to juggle your on and off again attempts towards greatness.
We have to end the lag between avoiding what we want and the potential of our greatness. Heck…I could have laid in bed and did nothing today, but I knew that I had a desire to post a blog to keep my audience coming back. I am fighting the clock of reality to shack this temporary jet lag. The question is are you? Fight those feelings of regret, fatigue, hopelessness, and avoidance. Pursue what you want out of life and take every chance to obtain it. Lagging behind will get you nowhere fast and that’s not a desirable place to exist. You are destined for something and nowhere is not an option. Stop lagging behind in your pursuit of success.
mOOd: looking up remedies to shake this jet lag. Please excuse any grammatical errors… I am losing the battle with the desire to be buried under my covers.
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