I am not a morning person…and that’s OK
Society is built for morning people. A lot of people swear by the first few hours of their day as their most productive. Many writers, including lots here on Medium, advocate an early rise.
But I say to hell with that.
I am not a morning person and that’s okay. My best work is done not at the break of day, but as it draws to a close. The only hours of the morning I’m truly interested in — truly productive in — are those shortly after midnight.
Sod 5am-7-am. 11pm-1am. Those are my hours.
And that’s ok. As darkness falls, society slumbers…and the night comes alive.
The silence of the night, the stillness of the air is my Muse. While the world rests, I write. That is the way it is, and it is the way I like it to be.
Society makes it difficult, because as I say it is geared to morning people. Or at the very least, the overwhelming majority that don’t gravitate towards being nocturnal.
Not everyone is a night owl, but that’s more than okay. Because it’d be no good if the world were just as alive at night as during the day. That’d steal the magic of the starlight. There is a stillness that accompanies the darkness, in which peace and power are found.
Midnight workouts[1]. Midnight scribblings. Midnight living.
That’s me. If it isn’t you, that’s okay too.
Fellow night owls, I salute you in solidarity. We work in the darkness and that’s okay.
Morning people, you do you. You work while we slumber and that’s okay.
The counting of the hours is a human construct. Night and day are more tangible, but still ultimately constructs. Where possible[1], work when it suits you, sleep when it suits you. Do what you do whenever it is best to do it and as such maximise your time, for it is severely limited.
At the end of the day — who gives a damn what hours of the day you use? Find your most productive time and unleash yourself in it. Regardless of it being societally acceptable.
Seize the day [3]— it doesn’t matter in which hours.
[1] 24/7 gym access is made for people like me…
[2] By nature of the fact night owls and morning people cannot be always segregated, sometimes one or the other will have to adjust their schedule. Compromise, as in all things, is a key skill.
[3] By the throat!
