Daylight Saving Time began yesterday. Whether you’re a fan of DST or not, I think it’s here to stay. Experts say this practice of setting our clocks ahead one hour in the spring and back again in the fall increases traffic safety, reduces crime, and gives us more daylight hours for after-work activities.
I’ve always preferred springing ahead one hour to falling back one. But that’s because I am and always have been a morning person.
Benjamin Franklin who discovered the benefits of DST while on a trip to Paris and brought the practice back with him to the states, was a morning person too. Perhaps his most famous quote is this: “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” He should have added, “…and ridiculed.”
Social norms say going to bed early is for losers. The accepted thing to do is to stay up well past midnight and sleep in until noon, if you can. The discrimination we early-to-bed-early-to-risers have to deal with from the night-owl-morning-zombie-types is not only unfair, but unfounded. You get just as much sleep if you go to bed at 10:00 pm and wake up at 5:00 am, as you do if you go to bed at 1:00 am and sleep until 8:00 am. Yet throughout my life I’ve had to put up with insults pertaining to my sleep patterns. First from my older brothers, then from my college roommates, and now from my own children!
Why does it have to be this way? I say it doesn’t. Morning people – unite! Stand with me now, and defend our rights to an early repose…for...
I have a dream… that my future grandchildren will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the hour of their bedtime but by the content of their character.
If you agree, say: “Amen!”
…or perhaps: “Good Night!”
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