I Never Thought This Day Would Come

I never thought I would ever want to agree with my dad as a teenager. I always hated that when I went home sick from school I would have to stay in bed. I always hated how he made me go to bed early a week before school started. I didn't like that he made me read before I went to bed, when there was my toys I wanted to play with. I never thought I would ever say this, but I'm glad he made me do those things. And don't you ever repeat that I said this.

I realize that now, when I don't go to school or don't go into work (when I was working) that staying in bed is the best thing for me. I get over my cold 10 times quicker and I don't get as bad as I could have. I take to bed with me a bottle (and sometimes a gallon) of water and grab a movie and lay in bed all day. When I do get up it's to make myself a bowl of soup and I go right back to bed. And for some reason, I get over my cold a lot quicker than I would if I didn't. Jason doesn't get why I stay in bed, he thinks it's because I'm lazy, but it's because that's how I was brought up.

Now that the new semester has started and I was out of work for the later half of the summer, I wish I would have gone to bed early a week before my class started. I never understood it until now. It's so hard for me to get into the hang of things and to get up for school in the mornings. Just this morning, I wanted to go back to sleep after I got woke up by the maintenance workers at the apartment complex started mowing the law 45 minutes before I had to wake up. Many times I thought I would just stay home today... but I drug myself out of the apartment into my car and drove 45 minute to school.

I am so happy that he made me read before I go to bed. I hated reading as a child and teenager because I never found any books that I enjoyed reading. Now that I am older, I found author's that I really enjoy reading and a genre that I really enjoy reading. Even though I already read a book, I may want to re-read it again just to get the rest of the details. My future father-in-law was very surprised at how much I read one afternoon while he was mowing. I read about 100 or so pages in about 2 hours. He just didn't understand why I enjoyed it so much, but it takes me out of the real world. It's like when I read I am able to be in the main characters world and head and it's the best way to escape reality.

My dad didn't always make the right decisions and I never understood why he made me do the things that he did but now I see why. It was all for my own good. I am happy that he did and he was right.