Good morning to you! This post is part of
Kate Says Stuff's Blogfast Club, and today's prompt is
Morning.
Newsflash - I am NOT a morning person.
I do not leap from my bed before the sun, cheerfully making tea and toast, then rush out to say hello to the dawn and marvel in the morning dew. On the very rare occasion when I am up at that time,
against my will, I am enamored of the breaking glow of the day, the sense of promise and potential as the dawn spreads it's rosy fingers across the land and wills the earth to get going. I love that workers - bakers, fishermen, commuters, have been up and busy for hours, eagerly and industriously getting into it. Mostly, I have not.
I literally struggle to open my eyes, let alone get out of bed, even on hot summer mornings when bed is not so cosy and cocooning but rather hot and stifling. I am the person who is always late to work, who always sleeps through the alarm, who would sleep until noon and beyond on weekends. I am also the person who is the last to leave a party, who stays awake after a night out rather than risk sleeping in and missing the early game of netball, the person who stays up to get the newspaper as it is thrown off the truck. (Do you remember the rental section before the internet?) Of course, young children will change that perspective, and I remember bitterly crying at the realization that
I would never sleep in again. But as they've gotten older, my sleeping habits are starting to return, in a modified fashion. There is still the school run to contend with.
I don't think being a morning person necessarily means you are more virtuous. This is an ongoing and sometimes heated discussion in our house. I am not asleep at 8.30 every night, my brain wants to stay up til the early hours and get stuff done. It's when I am most intelligent, most aware, most creative....There is something to be said for honouring your bodies cycles and rhythms, and peak synapse snapping time for me is between midnight and 3AM. In a world divided by early birds and night owls, I am the one who is happy to wait until the worm shows his face before nabbing him and calling it a night. Early birds are not better or worse than night owls, they are just wired differently.
So what do you say - are you an early bird or a night owl?
xx