The Language of a Loud Alarm Clock

Can you understand what it is saying?

Aaron McClure
4 min readSep 14, 2021
Loud alarm clock, cant wake up, cant get out of bed
Inspiring photo by Ashim D’Silva on Unsplash

Comfort is a drug. It’s addictive. Give a weak man regular sex, good food and cheap entertainment and he’ll throw his ambitions right out the window. The comfort zone is where dreams go to die.

-Henry Cavill (The newest Superman)

There are fewer things a person wants to hear in the morning than the sound of a loud alarm clock.

It’s a terrible feeling, like you’re being stalked by a predator. You just know it’s out there waiting and will come for you, but you hesitate to move.

Then when the damn thing does go off, you either stumble to silence it or just lay there hoping it will simply DIE. Have you ever wondered why you can’t get out of bed without a loud alarm clock?

If not, then you should…

It doesn’t/shouldn’t be like that. The need for that alarm clock is symptom. There is an underlying problem that if left unchecked can lead to nowhere good.

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Aaron McClure

Project Manager, blogger, writer. I write about the struggles of life and how to grow as a unique person. I welcome all open discussions.