How To Even…Get Up Off The Couch When You’re Comfortable

You’re lying on a couch with a fleece blanket wrapped around you, a cup of tea or hot chocolate or booze (it’s booze) to sip from. You could stay there forever. Why would your body do this to you when it knows you’re just going to have to get up at some point, which will ruin everything? Does you body hate you? Does it revel in your misfortune? Or is it incapable of long-term planning? Let’s examine this to try to get to (make up) some answers.

History

We’re going to let you in on a little secret. Remember how, when we were growing up, quicksand seemed like the biggest threat we were going to have to face as adults? It was ubiquitous in movies and TV shows. People (Jungle Jim, Bud Abbot, Roy Rogers, Ronald Reagan) were always wandering into quicksand. And yet, when was the last time you actually encountered quicksand? We’re betting it’s been a while. And, we’re not trying to be elitists here, but think about the quality of the last quicksand you encountered. Was it truly dangerous or more of a shoe dampener? It’s hard to find that high end quicksand these days. And there’s a reason for that.