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Steven Ugoretz's avatar

Like many other activities, waking up early varies as a function of your life stage: When you're a little kid you want all the shut-eye you can grab, unless Santa or rich uncle Ben is visiting the next day. While your in school, you don't have much choice: That bell rings for you five days a week from late summer until late spring. If you're in college, avoiding that dreaded 7:45 isn't always possible, but you're still young and vigorous enough to handle what's thrown at you. Then you leap into the rat race, and your time is not your own, at least until you accumulate enough vacation time for a real escape. Then comes "maturity" AKA old age. Well, at that point, getting up early is usually a function of your kidney clearance rate and bladder capacity (a word of warning). But sometimes, on the way back to the bedroom, you catch a glimpse of the first beam of sunlight peeping through the shutters. And then you trip on something you left out last night and stumble and grumble back to bed. As always, the message is carpe diem, which is probably the main thing us oldsters can pass on on any topic.

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Judy Crown's avatar

I CAN’T sleep late!! After all those years of getting up at 3 or 4 or 5 am my body will just not stay in bed when I see the little whispers of dawn. I guess I am just a morning person!

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