Rise and Shine

Groucho Marx once said,~Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet, I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." Waking up can be the easiest or toughest thing a person can do when one has to go to work or go to school. It often seems like as one gets older it gets harder and harder to motivate oneself to get out of bed. In some aspect, we all don't want to be awakened from that deep slumber that transports us to a place that nobody else can physically be. So then, let me ask you this question, are you a morning person?

We all know someone or are that person that is just way too happy in the morning and it can really be annoying to some or most people. It's that type of person that springs out of bed, who has that early to bed, early to rise mentality and watches the sun rise as he or she sips one's morning coffee. It's a person's chipper attitude combined with that proverbial kick in his or her step that can make any "normal" person either knock that person out or turn right around and go back into one's warm, comfortable bed. Yet, it's that same person who can absolutely motivate a person and jump start one's day like a dead car battery that is out of juice in one's car.

On the other side of that coin, you have a person like me who is totally the opposite. It's that type of person who when he or she opens one's eyes, looks straight up at the ceiling, and has to negotiate himself or herself to get up. When one does finally get up, a person is still trying to get his or her bearings straight and words are either mumbled or all connected together to make one long totally non-understandable word. It can be quite comical as you pass by someone who has been up for a while and they have to figure out what you just said to them. In any case, it's really hard to comprehend anything when one's mind is still in la la land and probably will be there until one fully wakes up, which for me is around noonish.

For some people, being a morning person is considered an inherited gene such as with a person who is a night person; in other words it's in one's blood. It's basically the type of person who can be best suited working in the daytime or nighttime, also added with that the mood he or she is in. Personally speaking, I am a person who goes to bed around 1am and gets up before my alarm clock turns on at 6am. It's just one of those things that no matter what I do, I wake up right before the time I should get up even though there are days where I don't have to go to work or class which ticks me off. Inevitably, it's that internal college clock that will always stay on and will never be able to be turned off.

In retrospect, for some people being a night person means more excitement and having more creativity. On the other hand, being a morning person you can be up all by yourself and gather your thoughts for the day. One can completely argue or debate it to the ground but the one thing that can be agreed upon is that each of us have either been or still are a night person, a morning person, or have switched sides. In the whole scheme of things there isn't really much of an advantage or disadvantage of being a person who is an early bird or night owl, so to speak. In the end, as long as a person gets some sleep, he or she will be able to rise and shine and get one's day started whenever that may be.