eggs and greek yogurt - by kaylee - kleerants

one morning, my boyfriend said that he wakes up every day genuinely excited about ‘building the future of ZK’ (what his startup does). my immediate thought response was that i wake up every morning excited to eat greek yogurt. this thought began to hijack the rest of my day. should i have some goal or mission that i was actively excited to wake up to pursue? does the fact that i don’t mean that i am not properly passionate about anything? am i that intellectually starved that the only thing that motivates me to turn on my brain is for fermented milk? my greek yogurt addiction had slingshotted me into a rabbit hole: the cliché but also curious question of what makes you excited to wake up every morning? one of my friends replied “realizing you have the ability to sculpt the world as you desire” (classic tech bro philosophizer). another said she wasn’t necessarily excited about anything when she wakes up — she simply gets up for obligation-based reasons. further reflection of my mornings

one morning, my boyfriend said that he wakes up every day genuinely excited about ‘building the future of ZK’ (what his startup does). my immediate thought response was that i wake up every morning excited to eat greek yogurt. this thought began to hijack the rest of my day. should i have some goal or mission that i was actively excited to wake up to pursue? does the fact that i don’t mean that i am not properly passionate about anything? am i that intellectually starved that the only thing that motivates me to turn on my brain is for fermented milk? my greek yogurt addiction had slingshotted