Welcome to a peek into my personal life. This is the Daily Struggles edition, as I like to call it. Now we all deal with trials every day and I would just like to share a few of mine that illustrate a disease we all succumb to whether we want to admit it or not. Laziness.

After school lets out, we all need a little down time to ourselves. My down time consists of eating and watching the best show ever, Friends. I tell myself every day after school I will limit myself to only one episode because I’ve seen them all anyway and have mountains of homework waiting to be done. But because of how comfortable the couch is and how hilarious the show is, it more often than not turns into at least four episodes. Daily Struggle number one.

After four or more programs of Friends, I end up in my room at some point where I spot Daily Struggle number two. I am referring to the toppling mountain of clothes that blankets my blue chair in the corner that I honestly don’t ever see anymore, let alone sit in due to my wardrobe overtaking it. Once my mountain starts to accumulate on my bed and other parts of the room, it eventually drives me to insanity, and I go on a cleaning rampage to hang all my rumpled clothes back up in my closet. But somehow, I always end up throwing my clothes back on to my trusty blue chair and about a week later, my mountain is built up to the highest peak again. Oh well.

Now Daily Struggle number three I believe is pretty relatable. Yes, I am referring to more than half of the population’s New Year’s Resolution every year. Exercising. My workout schedule looks pretty exceptional the first week or two of January but slowly starts to deteriorate until “I’ll start next week” becomes a pretty common phrase. That treadmill in my workout room menacingly mocks me in the corner, and I usually find something else on my to-do list I just have to finish right away rather than face that intimidating treadmill.

Now on to Daily Struggle number four. Due to my perpetual need to brush my teeth three times a day plus after some meals, I tend to find myself battling with my flat toothpaste tube to force the final drop of toothpaste onto my toothbrush. After I finally wave the white flag and grant the victory to Colgate, I consider my options. It’s either walk downstairs and search for a new bottle, drive to the store or walk a few feet to my brother’s bathroom and steal his toothpaste. Naturally the first two are much farther away than the latter, so I usually go with the crime. Eventually, I overcome my laziness and drive to the grocery store to restock my, and my now empty brother’s, supply of toothpaste.

To end my Daily Struggles we come to number five, a battle between my work, Mooyah, and my stomach. Being someone that needs food constantly, I find restaurant hours difficult to handle sometimes. Every hour, I pass by the stove and milkshake machine consistently mocking my growling stomach as I breathe in the delicious smells of Mooyah. After I clock out of my shift, the empty pit where my stomach usually is, has reached its low point, and I tussle with my two options. One, to buy a delicious carb-filled meal with my half-off employee discount or wait until I proceed to drive home and make myself something else to eat. It depends on which one’s stronger that day – my self-control or my famished stomach.

Looking back, I’ve realized my struggles of superfluous Friends watching, messy rooms, lack of exercise, scarcity of toothpaste and a famished stomach probably seem a bit silly. While it seems impossible at times to even think about getting off the couch, we have to realize that other people have it worse. For now, I should be thankful for the small struggles I have, realize they can be overcome and keep striving to defeat laziness, one empty Colgate bottle at a time.