On Rising Early
I swear I’m such a night person. Looking back, the articles I’ve written for magazines and broadsheets were all done in the evenings. The same for most of the presentation materials I’ve prepared.
There’s something about the hours of darkness that stir my imagination and ideas like a windmill. But that’s a concern for someone who’s got a day job and a son who has to be early in his class — and it happens to be me!
Because of my day job, I am learning to sleep early and head off to work early as well. But what drives me more to get up early is the thought that I can have the special privilege to prepare my son’s baon and be in the same car with him on his way to pre-school (my office is along the way, that’s way).
These days, I’m beginning to think that I’m veering away from my nocturnal history and finally adjusted. I’m glad that my brain can still be trained to “think” in the daylight. Besides, medical experts say it’s healthier.
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Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.
- Timothy Flint
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of our years, but adds likewise to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same measure of time, but increases also the measure.
- Charles Caleb Colton
When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.
- Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley
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