The baker’s alarm goes off at 3:30 so the town has bread by 7. Somebody always pays for the early hours.

Everything that seems simply available to you was paid for in somebody’s inconvenient hour. Bread on the shelf at seven means an alarm in the dark, and the same arithmetic sits behind a clean pool, a running bus, a stocked shelf. Convenience is never free, it is only moved. Knowing who moved it changes how you treat them.

Pick one thing you use without thinking this week and find out who sets it up, and when. Thank a person whose shift ended before yours began. If the early hours ever fall to you, you will know what is being asked.