How about sleeping until the sun is up and staring at your face? You are hungry, your head blank and your eyes swollen...that was the way I got up from my bed for most mornings of my life. It didn't matter whether I was in India, Japan or USA. I followed the same internal rhythm while getting up in the morning. Because research says, the little after-sleep nap you indulge yourself on holidays..is actually good for your brain health. Your memory and learning new skills. I treasured this habbit of mine as intellectual and tried to find similar attributes in artists, musicians and poets who were successful. I was happy the way I was.
Now, I get up before dawn, check my mails, have my coffee wake up my 3yr old daughter who has to go to school at 8 before going for shower. Sometimes I have to manage a little bit of exercise during that time and finally get dressed for going out to drive my daughter to school before going to work. During winter months this is the time when the sky starts brightening up. There is no sun in Pittsburgh for most winter days and it is a cloudy, gloomy morning many times with snow covered roads. I drive listening to Glenn Beck on my car FM. I can't believe what a strange turnaround and departure from my long nurtured so called "intellectual" habbits.
My wife says, everybody has a finite quota of sleep for his entire life and I have already slept mine. So its
