For every normal routine, there ought to be an overview of how it went. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is good, and unsurprisingly, the internet declares waking up early is an important aspect. The question is, is it true?

Anything could be romanticized or “aesthetic”. Waking up early is common, but what we see on the internet is it the real thing? This is the perspective from a person who has done it and currently lives that life.

Benefits

The truth is, waking up is as stressful as sleeping for the entire day. If you are not a person who values clarity and solitude, you might not like the early mornings. What I have learnt from this is, as I step on the cold pavement of the floor, it is a battle with my inner thoughts.

The quiet, eerie silence makes you confront your inner thoughts. After doing my morning rituals, I watch the world from the window. My thoughts begin to inhabit my mind. Most times, it forces one to write their thoughts, which leads to clarity. It could be in the form of journaling or poetry.

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Many ask me, How do I survive waking up as early as 6 am? The truth is that waking up as early as 6 am does not mean one sleeps early. I sleep at midnight, not the aesthetic 8 pm.

It might be real for others, but it is not real for me. If you want to sleep and wake up at a certain time, you need to do it consistently so that yyourour body becomes conditioned to that time. When it becomes conditioned to that time, it becomes a clock that alerts you when it is time. It has several benefits as well as downsides, which I will discuss in the rest of the post. The beauty of routine is that your body knows when your mind is still unconscious. If one wants to refuse “nature,” the possibility of the body feeling a bit heavy is high.

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Waking up early allows you to plan for your day. When the world is quiet, it is the perfect time to build your plan. Planning for the entire day makes you create a balance in your life.

When others are drifting across life, you are moving with a plan. The plan helps and propels you to be organized as you are strategically planning your life. To be honest, you do not need to prepare a Google Sheets to plan your life. The benefit of waking up before many means that you are already ahead mentally and intellectually. When it is already late in the day, they begin to plan their life. As they are trying to balance their mind within the noise, you are already moving according to what you have to do for the day.

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The Downsides

In another direction, it is not always simple. It is beautiful waking up early, yeah? Is that what everyone thinks it is?

I am not disputing the benefits of waking up early. I want to reveal the side effects. When your body knows when to wake up, it is wonderful. Wonderful until your body needs the rest. I recall when I slept late (like at 1 am). It is expected that my body should sleep in for the longest time. My body woke up at the exact time every day. At 6 am. Everyone might expect me to go back to sleep, but I did not. The reason is that when the body is awake, the mind is already active, planning and creating. The body becomes against the person and engages in the plan of the day (even ifif the plan is yet to exist, the mind will create it). Beautiful, right? Aesthetic, right? All this becomes too real when it begins to happen continuously.

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Furthermore, one could say that after your body and mind lock in, you follow suit. Not because you can not control them, but you have reached a level where the subconscious becomes conscious. When I went through the 1 am to 6 am sleep, I got used to it.

Regardless of what happened, I did not complain. I adapted to the situation. Something happened, after doing half of the day's work, my body almost failed me. My body felt weak and sore, my mind was still calculating, my eyes almost blurred, and then I knew I had to restrategize. I returned to my bed, slept deeply. Not for several hours, but a deep sleep. One might sleep for ten hours and not have a good sleep. It is not about the length but the depth. So, the point is that with every seemingly good habit, there is a point where it might be taking over (meaning you have to take over).

Conclusion

In conclusion, the habit of waking up at 6 am is good, but with some slight downsides. The obvious thing anybody could say is that I decided to sleep most of my days. The truth is, I still wake up early (even now, earlier than before), and I am not preaching for you to try it or intensify it.

It is beyond “aesthetic” or “trendy”. The life one decides to live is determined by some habit one makes, and the time one wakes up determines it.