章 3: Best habit

The dark curtains in the room prevented the morning rays from announcing the arrival of a new day. In those brief moments when a fully rested body would open its eyes and laziness and lack of purpose would close them back up, until in most cases someone would intervene. But today, like so many times in the past, Cal decided to pull himself together and made another attempt to get into the habit of rising early. The alarm clock, set for 05:59, had been playing its tune for 4 minutes already, and it stood a meter away from Cal, for whom the sound of the alarm clock came from far away and gradually increased, pushing him to think about the origin of the sound, and here 9 minutes after the alarm clock started, Cal regained consciousness. The crucial moment comes, the one in which most of the time Cal gives up and falls asleep upon waking. With great difficulty reaching for his cell phone, immediately after turning off the alarm clock function to stay awake Cal started checking his email, reading the news, and most importantly scrolling through his social media feed and responding to incoming messages, which of course quickly cheered him up. There were no specific goals for the coming day, so Cal actively tried to occupy himself with absolutely anything. But there was nothing to do except the Internet, not because there was nothing interesting to do, but because of the way of thinking that had taken root in his subconscious. The traditional glass of water after waking up, a light snack and back to bed, that was the only scenario at the moment. Cal wasn't burdened with working and feeding his family, so he had a lot of free time, and most of it was wasted. He explained his reluctance to get a job by his unwillingness to help a stranger realize his goals at the expense of his intellectual, temporal, and physical resources in exchange for a measly salary. Even if the salary was great, Cal never prioritized it.