At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I
have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if
I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the
world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”
So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and
experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and
spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world
in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a
human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?
When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that
your defining characteristic— what defines a human being — is to work
with others. Even animals know how to sleep. And it’s the characteristic
activity that’s the more natural one — more innate and more satisfying.
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