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Claire Kirby's avatar

As a morning person, I attest to the superiority! 🤫 jk jk it's really mostly about that untouchable quiet and potential before all hell breaks loose (aka a typical day on earth in 2023).

And I agree, autumn is the absolute best 🍂

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Brad Holley's avatar

I've been a night owl all my life. It was pretty normal to go to bed at 12, 1, or even 2 most nights. The irony was that I would then wake up for my normal-working-hours job, crawl to the coffee maker with my eyes mostly closed, hissing at any natural light that managed to peek through the blinds, while lamenting to myself, "wHy Is iT sO hArD tO wAkE uP iN tHe MoRnInG?!"

But here's the interesting bit: I have two little ones and for 6 years now I've now been forced to wake up anywhere between 4:00am and 6:00am to help them do all of the things that they can't (yet). I can't say that it's changed my natural Night Owl disposition, but there is a noticeable difference in how often I now choose to go to bed by 10:00pm, and how much easier it is to wake up before 6:00am. And even though I would always rather be in bed, I can't help but notice how much I enjoy sipping coffee and watching the Sun come up while I contemplate expressing better-than-everyone-else moralistic platitudes.

In a way, having kids is like being forced to attend "Night Owl Rehab". You have to give up this one way of being so that you can become something better (Oops--that's a platitude). Every molecule in my body wants to fight the action of transitioning from horizontal to vertical, every single morning. But then I immediately remember that I get to enjoy my new ritual of enjoying extremely utilitarian coffee and spending time with favorite little people, and it's all suddenly worth it. Every time.

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