Start of a new day.

My habit is to get up immediately when I awake.

And this time I sat outside even before a bird could declare the new day with song.

The importance of getting 8 hours of sleep every day, is mentioned consistently online by the health gurus, but who of us can afford this luxury. Definitely not me, as I have weird times of sleeping. In my younger days, I worked in the construction fields, and I could often, up to three times a week, work a double shift. That means no sleep and it didn't trouble me. My army days were no better as the guards saw me walking around at 2am way before our official rising time of 4am. So yes, I guess I'm just an early bird at times.

Let me show you what our early morning looked like.

Streetlights were still on.

Slowly, the day started, and it was very cloudy.

See the cloud formations on the mountain range.

Hectic stuff and we were in for another of those very hot days. The thing is that the clouds block the sun, and then the humidity increases into the 90 percentages.

And that was it. I didn't take many photos, and these are the best of what I got of the early morning.

So how do you sleep? 8 hours? Broken sleep patterns?

I don't know many people that sleep the allotted 8 hours and there is so much disinformation about it. Each of us are different, and if we, instead of trying to sleep the 8 hours, should listen to our bodies, they will tell us how much sleep we need. That's just my way of looking at things. Maybe I am wrong, and most of us sleep the allotted hours, but then I have always been a bit weird.

A funny thing was when I worked shifts for 5 years at a tobacco company, two weeks dayshift, two weeks nightshift. They had to put a guard at the lunchtime area as people would sit sleeping there instead of working. My trouble is, that I cannot sleep in the day and so you can imagine the battles that I had when the nightshift period started. I maybe got 3 hours of sleep during those periods, as we knocked off at 5 and I would rush home to sleep until the kids got dressed for school.
Such is life.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.

Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.

Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.

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