Sleeping is probably my favorite activity besides shoveling fresh french fries into my mouth. Sleep is healthy and encouraged, so I do my best to stay in good health and sleep whole lot, which means I usually don’t resurface to the world until after noon on most days. I know this sounds amazing and that you wish you were me with how well I can sleep, but now that I am nearing adulthood and having a job that starts well before noon, I am starting to get a little nervous.

I know I can wake up early, it’s just sad to wave those precious hours of sleep goodbye. The transition to becoming a morning person is going to be one of the toughest things I will have to do in my life. I no longer can slide out of bed at 1 p.m. and go straight to lunch and then class. Now I have to set an alarm, try to be woken up by this alarm, and probably chug a few cups of coffee. I have never been a coffee person either, which is probably a straight correlation with my never waking up early sleeping schedule.

One good thing about being a morning person or transitioning into one is breakfast. Now that I am awake and alert before noon, I can make breakfast every morning and can actually feel right about eating it at the time that I do. For me, in order to enjoy waking up and going on with my day, I have to look forward to something. So, I think that breakfast will be the only thing that keeps me getting out of bed every day. And I guess it is nice to have a full day ahead of me, rather than a remainder of an afternoon. Rather than rushing around to do whatever it is I decide to do for the day, I can take my time, get ready, and plan everything out.

I think this is the adult in me speaking, because before now, you could not pay me to get up early, and it is still a challenge each day. So, while I am still in training for this transition, I have slowly been waking up earlier and earlier each day to prepare my body and it really isn’t that bad. Yes, my eyes hurt for the first 30 minutes, and yes, I act really mean for the first hour, but after that I am ready to adult! So, if I can do this think called waking up at a reasonable time, anyone can.