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?”
— But it’s nicer in here ...
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?
— But we have to sleep sometime ...
Agreed. But nature set a limit on that — as it did on eating
and drinking. And you’re over the limit. You’ve had more than enough of that.
But not of working. There you’re still below your quota.
