As the clock strikes 6 a.m. my alarm goes off to the sound of Sia as Cheap Thrills plays out of my phone. I open my eyes with a disappointing look to welcome in Monday. I, like the majority of people usually don’t pick Monday as their favorite day of the week, which is why I had decided to change that. About two weeks ago I was listening to the radio as I ate cheerios out of the box which had been sitting on top of my fridge for longer than I could remember. I heard the upbeat song that quickly became my favorite.
Unfortunately, almost as fast as it became my favorite, it became something I couldn’t stand hearing. For my purposes of waking up, it actually worked for me either way. Anyway, as soon as I heard the song, I grabbed my phone to set it as the song that would play as my alarm would go off. I thought hearing this song would make me want to jump out of bed with positive thoughts, such as “I am going to have a great day,” and “I can’t wait to be productive.” Sure it worked for the first couple of day, but very quickly I became annoyed whenever I heard the song.
In fact, the other day I threw a cracker at the barista for playing this song. I didn’t mean to be so disrespectful, but something took over me. My eye started twitching, and my blood began to boil, I couldn’t help but yell “Turn that stupid song off now, before I go back there and do it myself.” Of course I apologized profusely and even offered to buy him a coffee, which was really embarrassing.
I wonder what I did wrong. Should I had left that song only for Mondays, and let songs that are pre downloaded to the alarm already play for the rest of the week? Sure I didn’t hesitate like before to get out of bed and turn the alarm off, but was it worth me having a breakdown every time it played on the radio?
On one hand, without Cheap Thrills playing I would either keep snoozing my alarm, or I piled more blankets over my head to not hear it go off, causing me to be late, but be on 5/10 on the bad mood scale. On the other hand I wake up immediately after hearing the song go off, causing me to be on time for work, but on 8/10 on the bad mood scale.
It is these types of decisions that make me hate growing up. I guess I will just have to compromise, on Monday, and Wednesday, and Thursday I will be on time, but in a bad mood for the first hour or so. On Tuesday and Friday I will be late, but in a slightly better mood.
