Well I know for sure that spring has sprung, at least for my own personal circadian rhythm.
Two nights in a row I have stayed out way past my bedtime on a week night, gotten 3 or 4 hours of sleep, and woken up feeling refreshed and alert, before my alarm clock went off.

I’ve noticed that once the days start getting longer and the sun is out more my mood and energy has a dramatic shift. I no longer want to huddle beneath my covers and sleep all day. I’m more interested in living my life.

Last night is a prime example of that. A friend of mine was going to B.L.U.E.S. to see a couple of his friends perform. At first I was rather reluctant to go out since I had been out until 2 AM the night before. The more I thought about it thought the more I realized what an opportunity I was passing up on. I mentioned in my post yesterday that I had decided to really start living and experience things. You can’t experience things if you sit on your couch all night and watch reality t.v. That’s you watching someone else experience things. I’m too young to become a lump. So I decided that even though I had work in the morning and really needed my beauty sleep I was going to go out.

I’m glad that I did too. I got to hear some great blues, meet some great people and got invited to a house warming party on Sunday. Which I probably will attend even though I have to work Monday morning.

I’m sure that my late nights will catch up with me soon, but truly I don’t care. I’m going to be 30 years old in 5 months and there are so many things that I haven’t accomplished. It doesn’t get any easier as you get older. When I was in my early twenties I thought I had all the time in the world to do what I wanted to do. Each year that passes I realize that I’ve got to step up my game. Life isn’t a passive thing. It doesn’t happen to you, you make it happen.

Of course that’s how I feel now that I’ve got my Spring Fever Energy backing me up. Come winter I’ll probably be back to my mopey, inactive, uninvolved self. Maybe that’s why I’m so gung hoe about my experiences now. Because I’m trying to fit twelve months of living into five. At least I realize what I’m doing and trying to fix it. If you don’t actively try to improve your life you got no right to complain about how much it sucks.