So I was talking to a friend of mine the other day about me NOT being a morning person, despite having this crazy job that demands I be at work by 5 AM. What the hell… is this the bloody Army where we do more before 9Am than most people do all day…LOL.
Working for the airline industry is a little whacky but perfect for a man like me that needs to have the work thang wrapped up early enough so he can devote the rest of the day to more important pursuits like photography and writing.
Anyway my friend was amazed that I had acclimated to the morning so easily and it made me think. Was I always a morning person trapped in late night body? Truth be told I’m at my best at 9PM, ironically that's when I have to start winding down in order to be any good for work the next day. It didn’t make any sense to me. People don’t just switch bio-rhythms like that. So my geek side really put some thought into it and came up with an interesting theory.
Stay with me on this, it’s gonna get a little quirky but the ride is worth the read.
SOME BACKGROUND
There is a pseudo-scientific hypothesis out there called Morphic Resonance which postulates that like forms appear alike because the governing creative force “remembers” the form through repetition almost like a template or a mold. You know that saying, "they broke the mold when they made you", well THAT mold is what is what is referred to here... I think. It proposes that this is true for everything from crystals to organic material to human thought… I guess that’s why couples start to look like each other after years of marriage and pets start to look like owners over the years. It gives new meaning to the term "Birds of a feather flock together."
The practical application of this theory was applied to people who do the notoriously difficult New York Times crossword puzzle. The researcher Sheldrake, noticed that people found it easier to complete the crossword puzzle the day after it was published. He proposed that it was because so many other people completed the puzzle on the day it was published, they created a morphic field or template that we receive like psychic cliff notes entered into the human data base called the collective unconscious, first proposed by renowned psychiatrist Carl Jung. Weird huh? This would mean that we are all connected which I whole heartedly agree with.
So back to me. I never felt comfortable in the morphic field created by morning people, all those 9 to 5ivers that live in the Mon to Fri cycle. You know who I’m talking about, those people that use phrases like “Happy Monday”, man sometimes I just wanna slap the shit of them…lol . The ole school rapper Whodini made a song called the “The Freaks Come Out At Night” which is much more up my alley. I feel much more at home in the template of “different thinkers” like in the Apple commercials and can only hope to tune into that remarkable Morphic Field.
So after careful consideration I realized that I’m still NOT a morning person because when I get up at 4AM to leave my warm cozy bed, all those “Happy Mondayers” are still dreaming of ways to spread their nauseating good cheer in about 5 hours at 9AM.
Ahhh yes… I’m still a proud misfit operating outside the so-called mainstream.
Working for the airline industry is a little whacky but perfect for a man like me that needs to have the work thang wrapped up early enough so he can devote the rest of the day to more important pursuits like photography and writing.
Anyway my friend was amazed that I had acclimated to the morning so easily and it made me think. Was I always a morning person trapped in late night body? Truth be told I’m at my best at 9PM, ironically that's when I have to start winding down in order to be any good for work the next day. It didn’t make any sense to me. People don’t just switch bio-rhythms like that. So my geek side really put some thought into it and came up with an interesting theory.
Stay with me on this, it’s gonna get a little quirky but the ride is worth the read.
SOME BACKGROUND
There is a pseudo-scientific hypothesis out there called Morphic Resonance which postulates that like forms appear alike because the governing creative force “remembers” the form through repetition almost like a template or a mold. You know that saying, "they broke the mold when they made you", well THAT mold is what is what is referred to here... I think. It proposes that this is true for everything from crystals to organic material to human thought… I guess that’s why couples start to look like each other after years of marriage and pets start to look like owners over the years. It gives new meaning to the term "Birds of a feather flock together."
The practical application of this theory was applied to people who do the notoriously difficult New York Times crossword puzzle. The researcher Sheldrake, noticed that people found it easier to complete the crossword puzzle the day after it was published. He proposed that it was because so many other people completed the puzzle on the day it was published, they created a morphic field or template that we receive like psychic cliff notes entered into the human data base called the collective unconscious, first proposed by renowned psychiatrist Carl Jung. Weird huh? This would mean that we are all connected which I whole heartedly agree with.
So back to me. I never felt comfortable in the morphic field created by morning people, all those 9 to 5ivers that live in the Mon to Fri cycle. You know who I’m talking about, those people that use phrases like “Happy Monday”, man sometimes I just wanna slap the shit of them…lol . The ole school rapper Whodini made a song called the “The Freaks Come Out At Night” which is much more up my alley. I feel much more at home in the template of “different thinkers” like in the Apple commercials and can only hope to tune into that remarkable Morphic Field.
So after careful consideration I realized that I’m still NOT a morning person because when I get up at 4AM to leave my warm cozy bed, all those “Happy Mondayers” are still dreaming of ways to spread their nauseating good cheer in about 5 hours at 9AM.
Ahhh yes… I’m still a proud misfit operating outside the so-called mainstream.
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