This has always been true of me for a long time. It wasnt always like this. I went to a quasi-military high school and we used to get up every day 6 days a week at 5am to go jogging. After doing this for most of 6 years, I got into the habit of waking up everyday at 5am - without fail - for a few years after leaving high school.
My bohemian existence as an undergraduate however soon put paid to that. I mean, whats the point of waking up at 5am when you actually went to bed at 6am? After partying all night? Or traveling by all-night bus to my next AIESEC conference?
Anyway, the life of a bohemian night owl (add my indiscipline) soon made sure that I woke up with the sun! Which of course was a problem in Sweden as in summer, the sun was up as early as 5am! But that is another story.
I have found though that, whenever I had something REALLY important to do, I had absolutely NO problem getting up at the crack of dawn. And I am sure this is the case with a lot of people. That fishing trip with your dad; the day you buy your first car; the day you start a new job; the day Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is released;
The day your soul-mate arrives after a 6-month absence; 36 hour trip and from thousands of kilometres away.
Now the funny thing is that THAT day is 2 days away. So why have I been unable to sleep for the past week? I guess some events are more important than others and your expectations are more intense for some stuff than others.
The Storm I speak of is not the kind that destroys. It is rather the kind that sweeps you away from Kansas to the land of Oz. Where you meet munchkins, travel along yellow brick roads and visit Emerald cities to speak to a kind and wonderful wizard!
It is the kind of storm that brings undeniable MAGIC into your life!
And while there are wicked witches of geographical points in this magical place, they were vanquished in the end weren't they?
The Chinese New Year is just about to start. So is mine.
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UNBELIEVABLY COOL
Oh My Goodness I just watched transformers! And it totally blew me away!
I have one of the most active imaginations that has ever been gifted to a human being. (If I do say so myself) Add to this my love for reading and reading fantasy and science fiction in particular and you can appreciate it when I say I spent many a day traveling the lands of my imagination.
Some lands were already created and I just made up my own epic adventures in them. Narnia, Through the Looking Glass; Great big magical trees with different lands at the top of them everyday... you name it and I was there.
Transformers was definitely right up there with Voltron the defender of the universe in my lexicon of MUST-NOT miss cartoons as a kid. I hated the Spider-Man movies for a variety of reasons but mainly because of the script and the REALLY REALLY fake web-slinging. It was so obviously CGI that it took away the pleasure. My imagination has absolutely no tolerance for these sort of things. I had imagined Spider-Man so realistically in my mind that it seemed an insult to me when I was presented with the CGI generated guy.
Leave him in cartoons I think.
But the action, story-line and oh-my-goodness transformations of the transformers... if you havent seen this, go and see it. It's even better than X-Men.
