I’m not a morning person. It takes me a long time to fully wake up and get going, and even longer before I feel up to actually interacting with other humans. Nor am I a night person. I go to bed early or it throws me all off my game, and the few times I decide to live dangerously and stay up past 10:00 PM, all it really does is make me feel hungover and remind me that I’m not 25 anymore. If I’m being honest, I’m not exactly an afternoon person either. If I’m not taking really good care of myself, I get a serious case of that afternoon slump. 2 or 3 rolls around and I get sleepy and irritable and start wandering around, looking for the closest source of caffeine.
So, basically, I’m at my most pleasant peak for a very short window of every day, somewhere around the middle. Good luck to you.
The one thing I DO really love about early mornings though, is the quiet. That super, super quiet that comes before anyone else gets up. Before I un-silence my phone and it starts pinging with notifications. Before I let the dogs out and they get all crazy, and I give them their breakfast (my German Shepherd is the noisiest eater ever. Ever.) When all I can hear is the hum of electricity, the sound of my own thoughts, and the very occasional car outside… whose driver, I can only assume, is off to some super exciting life-changing job. Where it’s probably not all that quiet, but there are likely no dogs noisily scarfing down their kibble. So, you know. Trade-offs.
It doesn’t last long. It doesn’t last long at all. Even though all the kids are late sleepers, real life always beckons. I’m a grown-up and there are Very Important Things To Do. But it is lovely while it’s there, and I try every morning to appreciate it.
The frequency of the cars has picked up, there’s a plane overhead, and the dog has finished his breakfast. He’s sleeping now, and just let out an enormous sigh (he’s a noisy sleeper too.)
But I’ll remember the quiet, and like the proverbial golden ring that’s just barely out of reach, I know I’ll grasp it again.
Tomorrow.
I’m the same, love that early morning time before anyone else wakes up. So peaceful and it sets me up nicely for the rest of the day
It really does. I get thrown so out-of-whack when I have to be somewhere first thing in the morning (which, thankfully isn’t often!) and I don’t get to have some morning time to myself.