Why do you wake up in the morning?

[Snuggles]

I think this is the right spot...

I was asked this during an interview over a year ago. I came up with some spur of the moment answer that I'll never be able to say again. Something to do with "I just want to accomplish something and be satisfied with the day"... I don't even think that makes sense...

...but really think about it... I don't quite have a real answer, what's your reasoning? What have you come up with?

(I will think extremely low of you if you post 'alarm clock' or 'I'm not tired anymore' or some other dumb, not in the least bit funny response... seriously... I'm judging you)

[Paul V]

Because I have a lot of things I want to do, and accomplishing them will make me happy.

[iamnotspock]

B/c I'm hungry, and I need to take a piss.

[xhaan]

I wake up when i don't need to sleep anymore for the day...

[MetalWounds]

Because I have the false impression that the upcoming day won't suck as much as the last one.

[OneBadMother]

*shrug* Why not?

[desg90]

Why do I wake up in the morning?
Because the alarm clock and my responsibilities force me. :rolleyes:

Why do I wake up at all?
(When I'm free of pressure I wake up in the evening :rolleyes: :rolleyes:).
Because my nervous system gives the order. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Why do I bother to live?
Developing.

Struggling in my never-ending way to perfection needs effort.
That's why prolonging life is one of my favorite search topics.
I must buy more time.:irked:

In my existentialist mind, life has no purpose at all. :scared:
In my worried soul (...? consciousness? feely part of my mind?)
I think development might be productive if I find the real purpose of human existence.
If the possibility is there, better start preparing myself for the time when I finally find out, no? :thinking:

Well, I had to find a purpose, even if feeble and easily debatable. :p
Otherwise, I would have gone too deep into my existentialist depression.

It's more of a desire to find a purpose.
Having rejected all religious dogmas,
life seems to have no other purpose than... just being there. :(

The concept is very cheesy, but my main purpose is... to find a purpose. :rolleyes:
I might never find it, but it encourages me less and less into sleeping forever. :undecided:

But, if I find it... well, I'd evade accomplishing it.
Once I serve my purpose... what will there be for me?
I'd just love to keep thinking forever... no death or ending to interrupt it... :lovestruck:

This, ladies and gentlemen, is known as drama. :cool:
A character who must choose between two or more paths; all of them fatally adverse.


I wake up to see if I can finally find the secret of eternity.

[slut poacher]

if i dont set the world on fire who will?

[desg90]

if i dont set the world on fire who will?

Everyone but me seem to have a purpose in life...
:suspicious::irked::cry::(:blank::thinking:
AAAAAAAARGH!

It is... inevitable...

[Paul V]

Everyone but me seem to have a purpose in life...
:suspicious::irked::cry::(:blank::thinking:
AAAAAAAARGH!

It is... inevitable...

If you can't find a noble, long term goal and normality seems unappealing, you can always try hedonism. :)

[desg90]

If you can't find a noble, long term goal and normality seems unappealing, you can always try hedonism. :)

I have heard the term many times...
Why the heck haven't I done a search on it?! :irked:

My purpose right now is to know all about this word and possibly identify with it.
Then... we'll see... :laugh:





desg90 added to this post, 2 minutes and 44 seconds later...

Done the a quick search.
My friend, I'm already hedonistic.

Finding a purpose would cause me a great pleasure...
But it would cause me equal sadness...
That's why I keep suffering... :p

[Paul V]

Bah, you're just too picky.

Do what the SPs do: Find a pleasure and dedicate your life to obtain as much of it as possible (usually sex, but food, power and money count too).

Or do what the SJs do: Find something that fills that hole inside you.

Or do what the NFs do: Find a cause and devote your life to it.

Or do what the NTs do: Design something that will change the world, even if only minimally.

[desg90]

Meaningless purposes...

Mine is more of a SJ approach,
I just can't find what would fill the hole!!! :irked:

Bah, I'm just irremediably picky!
Bear with me! :D

[Paul V]

Meaningless purposes...

Bah, I'm just irremediably picky!
Bear with me! :D

If you can't be satisfied by sensuous pleasures, then you'll probably be better off on the SJs path. I've known many SJs that attempted to fill their self-made voids with mundane pleasures. It's nothing buy self-dellusion and self-destruction.

[desg90]

If you can't be satisfied by sensuous pleasures, then you'll probably be better off on the SJs path. I've known many SJs that attempted to fill their self-made voids with mundane pleasures. It's nothing buy self-dellusion and self-destruction.

I've gone a step farther.
I know mundane pleasure won't fill the self-made void for too long.
So, I'm already consciously self-delluding and self-destructing myself...
In order to... avoid the very same result...?

Human stupidity has no limits. :laugh:

[Paul V]

I've gone a step farther.
I know mundane pleasure won't fill the self-made void for too long.
So, I'm already consciously self-delluding and self-destructing myself...
In order to... avoid the very same result...?

Human stupidity has no limits. :laugh:

Go seek help from an SJ. They'll tell you what to do. Each void has its own special way of being filled, and it requires a long process of self-discovery and introspection.

[desg90]

Go seek help from an SJ. They'll tell you what to do. Each void has its own special way of being filled, and it requires a long process of self-discovery and introspection.

I'm half-a-step ahead! :laugh:
I'm already waking up every morning trying to discover myself and...
when I've got time... look for a way to buy more time... for self-discovery!
But, you're right (once again). When I have the time and resources, I'm certainly consulting an SJ psychiatrist...

Solving that existentialist loophole by medical means is another thing in my pending list. XD

[radioactivez0r]

Because every day brings the possibility of something great happening, and the chance of that is enough to get me up.

[quentin]

Because I need to go to work to make money so that I can pay my rent and be able to have a nice, warm bed to sleep in at night and in the mornings.

I had my druthers I'd sleep in til the afternoon.

[rwyatt365]

…because I want to achieve something of lasting impression, something that – 100 years from now – someone will look at, or use and admire the guy (me) that created this thing.

[Solaris]

The reasons for this vary by day and mood. Sometimes, it's because I feel I actually have something to which to look forward (trip someplace cool, fun activity, cool problem to solve, weird adventures to have). Sometimes, it's because I just feel incredibly productive, and am excited about getting a lot accomplished. Other times, I lay there and think about the pointlessness of getting out of bed. I know I'll feel worse if I keep laying there, so I get up and move about my crappy day. Mainly, I just want to keep growing and not stagnate (if I stagnate in a crappy phase, that would be even worse).

[Jezebel]

After a certain amount of time, our bodies force us to wake up whether we want to or not. It isn't optional. The only choice in the matter is whether or not we get out of bed. The downsides to staying in bed all day for me are:

Lying in bed for too long has a tendency to cause headaches and other physical discomfort. It does not feel physically pleasurable once the body is no longer tired.
Since I have to be awake anyway, I have to occupy my mind with something. I eventually get bored and need to do some kind of activity that engages my mind.
Obligations and responsibilities that support my lifestyle do not allow me to spend entire days in bed.If it weren't for those things, there would be some days that I wouldn't bother getting up. As far as the inspirational reasons interviewers want to hear... pfft. I find the question to be silly. I experience those things because I'm forced to wake up, not the other way around.

[Pinkie]

The fact that I won't be happy with myself until I've done everything I needed to do.

[Capt57]

I wake up to see if I can finally find the secret of eternity.

All attempts at finding meaning and purpose seem to be human conceits. I mean who am I but just another random meeting of sperm and egg. I'm nothing but a random accident as is every living thing. To be or not to be is the only valid question.

[Seven]

My life is good and I don't want to waste a second of it lying in bed. There are so many things I want to learn and experience, places I want to see, people of different cultures I want to meet and understand, curiosities to be fulfilled,...I get up each morning excited and grateful that I am young, healthy and have the freedom to make choices and live life my way.

[Firelie]

After a certain amount of time, our bodies force us to wake up whether we want to or not. It isn't optional. The only choice in the matter is whether or not we get out of bed. The downsides to staying in bed all day for me are:

Lying in bed for too long has a tendency to cause headaches and other physical discomfort. It does not feel physically pleasurable once the body is no longer tired.
Since I have to be awake anyway, I have to occupy my mind with something. I eventually get bored and need to do some kind of activity that engages my mind.
Obligations and responsibilities that support my lifestyle do not allow me to spend entire days in bed.If it weren't for those things, there would be some days that I wouldn't bother getting up. As far as the inspirational reasons interviewers want to hear... pfft. I find the question to be silly. I experience those things because I'm forced to wake up, not the other way around.

I would love to hear you say that to a potential employer. Actually, I might have to steal that one just in case some interviewer asks me a dumb question like that.
Why do you wake up in the morning, what a weird thing to ask someone. I hope they were actually meaning to ask something about your goals in life, or your "driving force", or something and just phrased it badly.

[The Rose]

because I have to

[Jezebel]

I hope they were actually meaning to ask something about your goals in life, or your "driving force", or something and just phrased it badly.
Yeah, I've heard the question before and that's what I take it to mean. Regardless, it's a stupid way of asking it. If they don't want to know why I wake up and/or get out of bed, they shouldn't ask it like that. It implies that we have to have some kind of meaningful purpose or we would just lie in bed all day. That's nonsense.

Of course, I would totally lie and feed them some made up cheesy response about how much life inspires me if I were to gain something out of the situation (such as getting a job).

[Melotch]

Because I've woken up every minute and a half to glance at the clock to see if it's FINALLY time to get out of that den of intense boredom, and when dawn breaks, I can FINALLY get up and GO!
I'm channeling the exasperation felt in the midst of the night here. ;)

[Capt57]

Of course, I would totally lie and feed them some made up cheesy response about how much life inspires me if I were to gain something out of the situation (such as getting a job).


Mitch Hedberg, a comedian, had the following comment about his response to an HR person at an insurance company asking, "Where would you see yourself in five years?"

Mitch Hedberg: "Celebrating the fifth-year anniversary of you asking me this question"

[Tsuru]

To unravel the terrible secret of space.

[Wapiti]

.......I wasn't going to until I opened my eyes and saw the wife, she wanted to talk. So here I am.....

[fawkes]

Because I need to go to work to make money so that I can pay my rent and be able to have a nice, warm bed to sleep in at night and in the mornings.

I had my druthers I'd sleep in til the afternoon.

I don't have any driving inspirations in my life at the moment. So the one thing that keeps me going is my steadfast refusal to become a loser and a mooch.

[jdc127]

@desg90 You said developing was the reason why you wake up....

I consider that to be the reason we are here. We are part of the continuum of the evolution of the universe: more specificaly self-reflexive awareness that has so far reached its pinnacle here on earth in humans... Note I am not saying we are perfect but that our egoic based relations to the world are a constant catalyst in the process of evolution here on our home world.... I am also not saying that self-relfexive awareness in inherently better than other forms of intelligence or that it doesn't exist anywhere else in this vast univers... (It probably does.)

[desg90]

Yeah, development certainly has influenced our home and others living in it.
But, I'm very self-centered. And, I really don't care if my development affects or not others in a positive/negative way.
So, personal development doesn't seem to me like a way of cooperating with others.

Now if others benefit from it... well, good for them... :rolleyes:
While they rejoice in the benefits of my own development,
I will continue developing just for the mere sake of it.

*beats head against a wall in a Potter Puppet Pal way*
Angst! Angst! Angst! Angst! Angst! Angst! Angst! Angst!

[jdc127]

Desg90: I think the reality of full, balanced persoanl development includes cooperating with others and having at least a modicum of compassion for them...

[desg90]

Desg90: I think the reality of full, balanced persoanl development includes cooperating with others and having at least a modicum of compassion for them...

Who said I'm a balanced person? :wiseguy:

[jdc127]

Not me :)

[snoogit]

B/c I'm hungry, and I need to take a piss.

Thats about the only thing that gets me up. Sometimes if I do the "sleeping piss" where I stumble to the toilet and wizz away without regard to aim I end up not being awake enough and will be hard pressed to get up.

[Hdier]

My alarm clock wakes me up and I can't get back to sleep...

I want to be remembered by people, prove myself superior to others, and truely find happiness.

[thod]

Strange all these people saying they get up to achieve stuff. In a job interview I would say "I get up to get to work on time". When I can sleep in I like nothing more than to stay in that half awake state before full waking. To me that is not idleness but experience. Then when I do get up I dont set out to achieve anything beyond whats needed. The world is full of stuff from simply watching the birds in the garden, to browsing wikipedia. To me its about "appreciation" rather than "achievement". Not too different to the stoned guy smoking a joint. I guess that INTP objective of "understanding" rather than the INTJ aspect of closure via "achievement" is why we are different.

[Paul V]

If psychology doesn't help, try philosophy. It's much better when it comes to matters like this one.

[rwyatt365]

Strange all these people saying they get up to achieve stuff. In a job interview I would say "I get up to get to work on time". When I can sleep in I like nothing more than to stay in that half awake state before full waking. To me that is not idleness but experience. Then when I do get up I dont set out to achieve anything beyond whats needed. The world is full of stuff from simply watching the birds in the garden, to browsing wikipedia. To me its about "appreciation" rather than "achievement". Not too different to the stoned guy smoking a joint. I guess that INTP objective of "understanding" rather than the INTJ aspect of closure via "achievement" is why we are different.
Thod, I understand this POV and some mornings I'd like nothing more than to listen to the bird sing and watch the garden grow. But I know better than that, I just can't lie in bed and wile away the hours – something in me compels me to get up and "do something". Even on weekends, when there is nothing in particular to do, I still am up by 7 or 8 AM and looking for a "project".

It's a disease!

[Bossy Mom]

Because my cat jumps on my face and meows for her "Fancy Feast" cat food.

[dandylion]

I have things to accomplish, people to step on, etc. I'll sleep when I'm dead!

Haha, but really, I look at every day as little parts of the "Bigger Picture." I figure today's as good as any other day to do what I need to do to get closer to achieving any one of my several goals. I'm not into the whole "why do today what you can put off 'til tomorrow?" thing, even if I do procrastinate a little sometimes. I like to cross things off my "to do" list as soon as possible. If I don't get up, they'll never get done! And I can't depend on other people... you know what they say, "If you want something done right, you do it yourself!"

[stasis]

but really think about it... I don't quite have a real answer, what's your reasoning? What have you come up with?
I don't have a reason. If someone were to ask me that question in an interview, I would most likely fail. I do not lead a purpose-driven life.

[vaguely dissatisfied]

I wake up in the morning because I don't know what else to do.

[Aesthesis]

Pride. I see sleeping all day/staying in bed (unless I'm reading) as a vice that I don't want to be a part of.





Aesthesis added to this post, 1 minutes and 14 seconds later...

I wake up in the morning because I don't know what else to do.

If only we had a choice.

[Gonzo]

Heeeey... Your right! Why DO I get up in the morning!? Well I'll certainly put a stop to that from now on!

[Learning]

...but really think about it... I don't quite have a real answer, what's your reasoning? What have you come up with?


Waking up and getting up are not the same for me. I usually wake up thinking...and much prefer to ease into whatever it is I need to do. Especially so if it involves interacting with anyone. Somebody mentioned something about thoughts leading to actions, and I guess that's what it is for me. I wake up thinking, and eventually feel compelled to do at least one of the things I'm thinking about...whether it be eat, work, etc.

[sarahintj]

A sudden noise will wake me and my mind takes off. Flooding with thoughts and excitment of what the day will bring. I often try my damndest to fall back to sleep in fear of lack of. Rarely does this work and I end up taking a cat nap later in the day.

[Zunite]

Because my cat jumps on my face and meows for her "Fancy Feast" cat food.

My cat doesn't have nearly that good of a reason - he apparently just thinks I should be up at the same point in time each morning to give him attention. If I didn't have him I'd probably get a lot more sleep.

Other than that, I get up because I need to on weekdays - because I have to go to work to pay the bills. On weekends I get up because I enjoy what I have planned for the day - well that's not quite true, some Sundays I really wish I wasn't still sleeping, but that's what the homily is for, right?

[Ace1337]

I don't know why I wake up in the morning,
life makes no sense to me at all, maybe because I don't have a girlfriend and because I haven't accomplished anything significant in life, but those two things are going to come in the future, hope keeps me going, I'm just 19, my time will come

[Antares]

I wake up 1. Because I had to. School. Argh. 2. because I can't sleep anymore. If I find myself awake, there is so long I can convince myself to pretend to sleep before bright sunlight force me out of the bed. That said, if I have my way, I'd sleep everyday at 11 PM and sleep myself silly until 10 AM.

[Nightelf]

1.) Because the neighbours are too noisy (I live in a students' hostel) 2.) time to visit the... 3. the sunshine wakes me up :-)
Seriously: I want to carry on with my plans (or accomplish them) to put my day in a useful, intellectually challenging purpose's service.

[MixISTJandINTJ]

Because I have a lot of things I want to do, and accomplishing them will make me happy.

This :)

[BadMojo]

I simply wake up to live.

[szaxazs]

because I have to


The first thing that came to mind :stunned:

:stunned:wow:stunned:

[JTG]

Yeah it's definitely not because i want to. I'd sleep for days if i could :)

[MintNut]

Because I'm happy for a new day to start; and the sooner I get up the sooner I can start accomplishing things.

[quentin]

To be perfectly honest, half the time it's because I need to get up to pee.

[Windmill]

Because I want to do something else :P

First, I analyze whether or not I can get more sleep (whether its possible, or whether or not theres time) if not, then if I have something else I want to do (which is almost always) I get up, else I can't stand just lying in bed. It feels like a waste of valuable time.

[Wolfie]

Because if I don't have a phD or a MD by the time I'm 27 my parents will complain that I'm bringing dishonor to our family...