Sleeping In

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It is a fact in most cases that a child takes after her or his family and their habitual activities which range from eating to sleeping. Apart from eating, sleeping patterns in my family have heavily influenced me. 

It was Sunday morning. I was awakened due to my bowel movements. It pestered with me at 7:30am, so I got out of bed and tended to its needs. The house was unusually quiet. I bumped into my mother who also happened to be awake due to her bowel movements - perhaps another habitual family trait that we share - and upon inquiring into why the shop has not yet opened, she notified me that it would in an hour. My father opens the shop late on Sundays so as to acquire some more sleep. She asked whether I was up for the purpose of homework or not, then went back to sleep. The house was then terribly quiet yet softly alive with the sounds of snores. 

We are like a little community. Rather, a little herd. A rebellious little herd. In fact, if we had been a herd, we would be the type of herd that hogs the drinking area excessively due to being so full that we cannot move. We would lay there immobile after a large meal and a large drink of fresh water to suit, out of scheduled hours, so long that we would annoy all of the other herds and be exiled from the land which we would have once called home.

Alas, we are not a herd. We are a quadrant, we are a group of lazy humans who share a passion for food, movies and sleep. We would prefer waking up late each day and on the days where we must wake up early, share the hatred of having to do so. Parting with our beds is no simple task, yet we push on. We do not actively support each other, yet we passively are there for one another in our supportive actions. Or lack of, when it comes to the acquisition of sleep.

How then, can one break free from a habit such as sleeping in when every person that is surrounding that one shares that habit? Families frame who we are, and since I am a lazy person, preferring chocolate over the company of others, who has a pale complexion from avoiding the sun and enough weight to remain warm without heaters and who enjoys sleeping in, then I suppose you are acquainted with my family too.