I curse my alarm every morning when it goes off between 5:00am and 5:30am. I am not a morning person, not in the least. However, as a teacher who is at work by 6:45 I have to be a morning person. I hate mornings, but the youth of America need me when that bell ring at 7:25. So, each and every morning I am there, like it or not.
But, you know what, on nights like tonight I realize that getting up early has way more benefits than it does negatives. I was running through the intesections of N. Quaker and W. Braddock and N. Quaker and King St. at around 6:30 pm and I saw nothing but headlights in every direction. A sea of commuters making their way home as I was in the middle of a 5 mile run. And it got me thinking, "man am I glad I teach." As all of these people where just making their way home, I had already put in a respectable 9 1/2 hour day, picked my son up from daycare, checked in at home, dropped my car off at the dealership and was in the middle of a run. And as these corporate ladder types pulled into their driveway for the first time I was home for good and ready for some R&R.
Will I still curse my alarm every morning? Yep! But will I love the time teaching gives me with my family? Yes, yes I will.
Two quick links- First a song we can all relate to by one of my favorite bands:
Tonights run:
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