Morning People

I'm sitting in my car in the Target parking lot, Googling the statistics on morning people in the world. Being a morning person myself, I was feeling like the world was not catering well to people like me.

I planned my morning inefficiently. I was up at 5 am (without an alarm), made my bed, washed dishes, had breakfast, cleaned out my car, stopped for gas on the way to the grocery store, and still got there 5 minutes before the 7 am opening. The problem was my next stop was Target (across the street) that didn't open until 8 am. And there was no way I was spending an hour in the grocery store. I was lucky to milk 15 minutes out of it. I had already scrapped the Vitamin Shoppe errand since it doesn't open until 11 am.

I went to Pete's Coffee (opens at 6 am on Sundays) and did a lot of sitting in my car. I moved across the street to Target and sat in my car even more, which brought me to Google.

Why aren't more places open at 6 am on Sundays?

Research has found that the majority of older adults are morning people, while the majority of young adults (and certainly teens) are evening people. I've been a morning person my entire life so I may never know the difference.

It turns out morning people are generally more happy than evening people, but that may be due to having to live in a "morning oriented" world. Research points out that during the work week, people are expected to get up early to get to work and actually function once they're there. I see how this could kill your vibe if that wasn't natural for you. I'm grumpy if forced to stay awake past 9:30 pm.

So I suppose it's okay if I'm inconvenienced occasionally by a world that's slow to get started since I'm also blessed to be able to easily handle early morning flights, classes, work schedules, and race starts.

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Target finally opened and I got my errands done.

Had second breakfast at 9 am.