Why and How Mornings?
A lot of us have been through discussions involving which part of our 24 hours works best. That said, I am not writing this to conclude or generalize 😎
For most part, I myself have tried both extremes- working late into the night, and waking up before dawn. Its not a single player game, if we may think so- a lot many factors come into play.
Blue light availability is just too much: Look around and this will range from the well lit spaces to multiple devices. In fact these devices are made brighter and sharper for them to be able to capture space attention from across brightened up rooms.
Even before dusk, we now have enough resources to brighten up our rooms by touch or voice- this does not logically put an end or a defined cut off to our wind up routines. Time never feels enough, and never will!, so we often tend to pack in an extra mile towards the end of day, by allocating time to tasks involving greater deal of visible perception. And even if we are able to outsmart circadian clocks often and in succession, that’s not sustainable as a process- it does hit back both psychologically, and physically.
Okay lets address the beasts in these well lit rooms 😈
Novel mindless sources of distraction are available on screens of different sizes, and are set to get worse. Awareness in human brains evolved in ways so that its able to pick up sudden changes in the environment (this was a need eons ago, when extreme alertness was required to survive). Now, take for example our smartphones, they are turning smarter by the versions and are inherently built to continuously grab packets of attention, so platforms start recording about us and monetize- and we know why android is open source, eh! 🙃 ..Keep swiping, thumbs up and down, into those infinity pools, drown your brains further 🤪 ..Anyway, this was not meant to hurt sentiments, but this piece is getting out of hands, shittier by the sleepless nights! People now subscribe to monthly debits across multiple platforms hired to compete for ever decreasing span of attention. Later this can even turn to pay per seconds, pay per millisecond 😵
Globalization of workforce: The service industry has evolved in ways where work gets done round the clock across geographies, by means of collaboration either by distributed value chain on same piece of job (saves time), or by distributed staffing on operational pieces (saves money). This has led to the ever increase and prevalence of shift workers, job definition for whom, requires them to be awake for most part of the nights depriving of the inherent benefits that comes with respecting body’s circadian clocks.
Socially active hours: This has shifted to hours from when our office/work gets over to the time by when we feel exhausted/sleepy. First we give up on our form called body by ways of ingesting fancy junk, not allowing it to rest predictably, then it slowly but steadily gives up on us too. Ease of arrangements, starting with bright lights, multitude of screens, and availability of social circles towards the tad end of late evening draws much of that social jet lag. But nevertheless, we can’t do without it, not totally.
The battery called will power: Will power is pretty funny, unrecognised topic. Do you realise, that often, we are most vulnerable, towards the last few hours, before we are off to bed. Try to research, what’s the most probable time for momentous unplanned actions that we would have refrained from, given a choice early when our day started. This is essentially a result of our low will power, which we tend to tire/exhaust by the end of day, by regulating our thoughts and actions in favour of the person we want to be throughout the day.
Predictability: This one I had experienced too, purposeful actions done before bed, late into the night, seems ostentatious to self and manageable too. Since, waking up early in the morning and having an appointment with self seems more an uphill task, because there are n number of things waiting to grab our attention towards the tad end of the previous night. And trying to principle self into a winding up routine daily on a very low will power towards late evening, is indeed unpredictable, unless we have firmly established our social identity. Contrary to this, staying up late is actually easier than thought, since we relentlessly tire our body to submission, and once asleep, we are forced to spring up right at the time when the clock hits our office hours.
Real joy has been replaced with artificial pleasures: Over the years we have now learnt to make ourselves happy with never ending upgrades to superficial items of associations. In the process we have unknowingly trained ourselves to get bored easily even if we are surrounded by family at our dinner table. Nowadays social validations have taken over real experiences by miles, and we only often smile when the intention is to peg our degree of joy against engagements using emoticons.
The rest is in front and around you 😄
