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10 Things Only Morning People Can Relate To

This one is for the early birds.

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Online, especially amongst college students, there are a lot of memes and jokes centered around sleeping in late and staying up into the early hours of the morning. If you're like me, you can't relate to any of these jokes. Morning people are definitely overshadowed when it comes to jokes about sleeping through six alarms or waking up mid-afternoon. While I don't have any memes to share with you, I do have a few things that all of us can probably relate to as morning people.

1. Being awake to see the sunrise isn't that uncommon.

Maybe not as much in the summer when the sunrise is even earlier, but waking up and watching the sunrise isn't just something you try to do to change your perspective— or whatever self-help articles say. You and the sky are in sync when it comes to waking up, regardless if you want to be or not. Seeing a beautiful sunrise is just an added perk of being a morning person.

2. There's always time for breakfast.

Yeah, there's probably enough time for a second breakfast also. When you wake up and get out of bed right away in the morning, you have enough time to prepare and eat breakfast as part of your morning routine. There's no need for breakfast on the run when you woke up with at least two hours to get ready.

3. You're always the first one awake at sleepovers.

It's boring. It's uncomfortable. It's honestly just the worst. You just lay there on your phone contemplating how long you should let your friend sleep before waking them up. Also, you question if t's acceptable to steal some of their food because you've been awake for an hour and you never skip breakfast. (See the previous point.)

4. Because you wake up early, you also like to go to bed early.

I get teased for going to bed so early but it doesn't even bother me. If you want a full night's sleep as a morning person, you have to go to bed early. Just as how some people couldn't imagine willingly waking up before 10 am, you couldn't imagine happily going to bed after midnight.

5. You don't understand how people have multiple alarms...

6. ... or use the snooze button.

Seriously. It's a mystery. You always wake up to one alarm—that is, if you didn't already wake up before it went off. Then if you share a space with someone who has multiple alarms, you get stuck listening to all of their alarms because you've been wide awake since the first one went off. Some part of you envies people who can fall back asleep after hearing an alarm.

7. You drink coffee for the pleasure of it, not because you need it to function.

Don't get me wrong, I love coffee probably to an unhealthy extent. As a morning person, it's not like we're zombies until we get a cup of coffee. Coffee adds pep to our steps but isn't our gasoline to go for the day.

8. You wake up and are ready to get going for the day.

That person that is overly happy and tends to annoy the still half-asleep people in the mornings? That's you.

9. No matter how late you go to bed, you still wake up early.

It's a curse. While waking up early has plenty of benefits, when you go to bed at 3 am and wake up at 7:30 am it definitely doesn't feel like there's a positive to being a morning person.

10. If you do sleep in later than 10 am, you worry that something's wrong.

"Maybe I'm sick? Oh god, I need to look up excessive sleep on WebMD!" It's dramatic but it's also the reality when you're so used to waking up early every single day. You can probably count on your fingers how many times you've slept in later than 10 am and on one hand the times you've slept in later than noon.

As morning people, we get more hours of daylight to enjoy and we are able to get up right away without a problem. While there are some drawbacks, I'm glad to be a morning person and so should you!

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