Morning People Vs. Night People
What’s your best time of day?
My favorite time of day begins in the evening, around 8:00 or 9:00 PM. The sun is at various stages of setting, depending on the time of year. The sky is dark, or at least has some lingering streaks of purple, gold, and dark blue. The neighborhood is quiet, my house is quiet. I feel a rush of creative energy, or just energy in general. I get writing done, laundry folded, dishes washed. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
It’s my time to do whatever I want. The only place I have to go is bed. No rushing off to work or somewhere else. I can control my time. I mean, I know that eventually I have to go to bed because, day job, but it feels more relaxed at night.
My husband, by contrast, is a morning person. Not a super-early morning person, but he’ll routinely wake up around 7:00 to enjoy a cup of coffee and the newspaper in his own quiet time. If it’s a weekend day, he knows that Iwon’t drag myself downstairs until 9:00 at the earliest. I may or may not have woken up past 10:00 yesterday…
To me, the world seems geared toward morning people. Dragging myself out of bed at 6:45 to get to work by 8:00 requires a Herculean effort sometimes. My body’s natural rhythm is not set to begin at sunrise. No matter how early I go to bed, I still feel like I’m in a fog until after lunch. I did that for…
