Dear Friend of Mine,
Please don't text me before 9AM unless it's an emergency. "Get up. apply for jobs. get employed. kick ass." is not appropriate to send someone at six thirty in the morning. Not all of us have full time jobs that start at ass o'clock in the morning. Some of us are on a 3-10 sleep schedule, meaning that I'd been asleep for two hours when your text jolted me into wakefulness. If that's not enough, for the last five days I'd been woken up unceremoniously at 4 by birds or traffic or dogs or the like, and this was the first day I hadn't. But when your text woke me up that was all I could hear. You may live in a quiet gated community, but I live near a 45mph road.
And it threw off my day, because even though I don't have a job as you constantly remind me, I do have a volunteer position that starts at two. And today was the day I was going to ride in early and eat lunch at the sushi place I've wanted to try since it opened a few years ago. But staying up an hour and then falling back to sleep threw me off, and now I've woken up at 11:30. Oh, I could still go, but by the time I skip breakfast and bike the three miles I think I might pass out.
You are one of my best friends, but the lesson in all of this is: don't text people at 6AM with encouraging shit that just reminds them early in the morning that you have a job and they don't. You don't know what their plans are for the day or how waking up that early will throw them off, and after three years of friendship I'd hope you know I have a hard time sleeping through the night.
Thank you.
And it threw off my day, because even though I don't have a job as you constantly remind me, I do have a volunteer position that starts at two. And today was the day I was going to ride in early and eat lunch at the sushi place I've wanted to try since it opened a few years ago. But staying up an hour and then falling back to sleep threw me off, and now I've woken up at 11:30. Oh, I could still go, but by the time I skip breakfast and bike the three miles I think I might pass out.
You are one of my best friends, but the lesson in all of this is: don't text people at 6AM with encouraging shit that just reminds them early in the morning that you have a job and they don't. You don't know what their plans are for the day or how waking up that early will throw them off, and after three years of friendship I'd hope you know I have a hard time sleeping through the night.
Thank you.