Ok...
So why get up? Or should I skip that part and we can go into this "better path" you mentioned and why that's important to you?
Why does one exert willpower in any given situation?
If I exert my willpower to not eat a bowl of ice cream, is it not because I desire/want to avoid the unhealthy aspects of that particular temptation?
Why do a good thing? If you avoid eating ice cream, it's because you want
in the sense of preference (and not feeling) to avoid the unhealthy aspects of this temptation.
Let me ask you: if you choose through reasoning to follow a smaller desire (the harder one, like getting up after little sleep) over a bigger one (the easier one, like staying in bed), how is it about desire? It seems in this case, because you're going with the smaller desire, to be about something more than desire, which is why a smaller desire is chosen.
And again, related to this, if reason is different than desire, then by reasoning we're detaching ourselves from desire momentarily, which means desire isn't necessary in all situations to determine outcome. Reasoning here becomes an instance of determining
preference, which people equate with desire in a second sense.
You can see how much jumbled semantics in everyday use has contributed to our disagreement here. I'm saying there's desire in the sense of conscious or unconscious
feeling inclining a person in a certain way, and there's also desire in the sense of preference, which
doesn't involve feeling and refers only to one's abstract idea of the good in a particular situation.