In the past, this kind of timings wouldn't have been considered early to be up, nor is it an early part of the day.
Just past 8.30am a few years ago, and I would have been up for at least 2 hours by then, sitting in the classroom listening to teachers drone on. a decade ago, people would have been up and running businesses, rush hour traffic over, and breakfast places slowing down daily sales.
Now, we're expected to try to be punctual for an ungodly early 8.30am class (and let me emphasize the word TRY here), if not, it's no surprise when a few of us are late.
Which brings me to think about technology, and how it has enabled us to defy the natural workings of time. The Sun was our time guide. We woke when the Sun rose, we slept when the sun set. But now, we wake when the Sun's halfway up the sky, and we sleep, hours just before the Sun rises. And why are we doing that? Screwing our internal body clock for what, more life, more time? We can't change the number of hours there are in a day. It'll still stay at 24 until the Sun rises from the West and sets in the East.
What is happening, is that the advent of the electronics distract us till we forget the time, the lightbulb allows us to stay up and complete our never-ending work, and the increasing culture of life being entertaining only at night, when darkness prevails upon the world.
Just past 8.30am a few years ago, and I would have been up for at least 2 hours by then, sitting in the classroom listening to teachers drone on. a decade ago, people would have been up and running businesses, rush hour traffic over, and breakfast places slowing down daily sales.
Now, we're expected to try to be punctual for an ungodly early 8.30am class (and let me emphasize the word TRY here), if not, it's no surprise when a few of us are late.
Which brings me to think about technology, and how it has enabled us to defy the natural workings of time. The Sun was our time guide. We woke when the Sun rose, we slept when the sun set. But now, we wake when the Sun's halfway up the sky, and we sleep, hours just before the Sun rises. And why are we doing that? Screwing our internal body clock for what, more life, more time? We can't change the number of hours there are in a day. It'll still stay at 24 until the Sun rises from the West and sets in the East.
What is happening, is that the advent of the electronics distract us till we forget the time, the lightbulb allows us to stay up and complete our never-ending work, and the increasing culture of life being entertaining only at night, when darkness prevails upon the world.
3 comments:
i still wake when the sun rises =( can't seem to undo that bioclock of mine.
that's good (:
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