Mindfully Lazy

There’s something about waking up early to start your day. No rushing. No snoozing the alarm clock. No tripping over yourself trying to get to school or work. I must say, it’s pretty peaceful.

Jim Watkins’s quote encapsulates a powerful metaphor for the virtue of perseverance and the impact it can have on achieving one’s goals.

There’s a certain comfort in ruminating with what could have happened. You get to reimagine it “actually happening” the way “it could have been”. It all could still be real, if only in your head… if even for just a moment.

I love my bed. It’s so soft and comforting, and sometimes, I just don’t want to leave it!

In fact, in my old house I had a table I can pull towards my bed that had a computer on it. With this set up, I could wake up and get straight to fiddling away on me computer!

You see, I love milk.

I pour it everyday on my granola cereal with added banana slices. It’s the perfect nutty and tangy breakfast mix, and it doesn’t even need much preparation.

Ready… hands behind the line… Get set… heels and buttocks up… BANG!

And we’re off! Running as fast as our legs could carry us through the 100m track. All nervousness temporarily forgotten as my mind blanks out and my legs propel me forward.

Once upon a morning, I was happily breezing along and contentedly riding my scooter when all of a sudden — disaster struck!

My phone somersaulted out of its makeshift phone holder.

In that split-second, I said a prayer to the mighty phone gods before quickly picking up the phone with bated breath…

I can be obsessive about certain things, and this is detrimental to all the projects I’m currently working on.

I don't like cooking— There I said it. The buying groceries, the actual cooking, the washing up... it all seems like a lot of preparation just to eat one time and then do it over and over again the next day and the day after that... As I've said a lot of times, "I...