Every morning I wake up and I hit the snooze button. Sometimes I hit it more than once. In fact on average I probably hit the snooze button about 3 times every morning. The night before I have all these high hopes of waking up at precisely 7 o'clock and then using all that lovely morning time to actually prepare for the rest of the day. My intelligent, high achieving, conscious side say's "Hey I'm going to wake up early and take the day in stride." Whereas my early morning, lazy, and still sleepy side says "If I sleep for 30 minutes I can quickly get dressed, run out the door, and just make it to school right on time." These two sides battle for dominion and often the one in the moment, the early morning side, wins out against the logic and the productiveness of the first side. Sometimes I think it might just be better if I didn't set the snooze button at all, but then I fear that I might just fall back asleep and not wake up for a least another few hours.
It's funny to me the control we have on waking up in today's world. I mean alarm clocks (and Ipods with alarm functions) have not been in existence forever. With greater blessings of control comes a greater chance to abuse such systems. This I think can be applied to all sources of technology or media. With greater variety and control over tv channels, for example, when you can watch them, and how frequently you can watch them, there is greater possibility to abuse these privileges and opportunities. We have greater control of what we can watch and how can watch it but in turn that means we can essentially watch anything and submit ourselves to everything if we so choose. Would it really be so bad if we didn't have a choice? Would it really be so bad if we just got up when the sun came up and stayed up out of fear that there would nothing else to get you up? We have been given blessings in the form of technology and media which allows for a greater amount of control in our lives, but I certainly think that that control can be heavily abused and taken advantage of.
When I thought about the loss of alarms, my initial reaction was a little panicky. I would be late to class, appointments, work....etc. However the more I thought about it, relaxed and happy I think I would be, because it would force me to slow down. Interesting idea though!
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