Bakers, delivery drivers and garbage crews are already halfway through their day when you hit snooze.
GRATITUDE
WHAT THIS MEANS
The morning you wake up into has already been assembled. Bread baked, trucks loaded, bins emptied, streets cleared, all of it done between two and seven by people whose shift ends about when yours starts. The town arrives finished, which makes it look like it came that way. It did not; it was built again overnight.
Be awake for one piece of it this week, early enough to see the trucks out or a bakery lit before the sign flips. Then be good to the people in it: have your bins out on time, be ready at the door, say good morning first.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Whose workday has already started when your alarm goes off?
MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE
- The bookstore clerk who let you read half a book on the floor without buying it was giving you more than a book.
- You’ll forget a lot of high school, but not the stranger who helped when your car broke down. Be that stranger.
- Lie down in the grass and look up for five minutes. Nobody’s posting this. That’s the point.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.