Excited

Today I woke up with the most BIZARRE feeling.  I was excited.  Not for anything in particular… just EXCITED!  It was like the feeling you have when you are a kid and you wake up on field trip day, or the first day of school.  Today is just a normal day… lots to get done, not enough time (or energy) to do it.  There is nothing special about today.  But for some reason I’m excited.  

More than anything this pointed out to me how NOT excited I usually wake up.  I’m your typical melancholy.  Mornings are hard for me.  I love to sleep and waking up means the end of sleeping- so not fun.  

I like waking up this way.  I wish I woke up this way more often.  I wonder, do normal people that don’t suffer from depression feel this way when they wake up normally?  Does it just seem like excitement to me because it is such a contrast to the depression that normally awaits me when I wake up in the morning.  The depression that usually takes awhile to work out of my system in the morning?  

My new prayer is that I can approach every day like this, it is such a relief.