Have you ever wondered that...

[mayaclars]

I thought about some topics, and, maybe you have also been thinking about similar stuff. I've realized that simple things make me so so happy, and I don't need anything else. For example, just getting up early and do my little routine lifts my mood up. So, questions for you:

1. What's something ordinary can make you feel really happy?
2. Are you a morning person?
3. If you could pause time, would you?

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[Dan Q]

1. What's something ordinary can make you feel really happy?

A heartfelt hug from a friend. A hot black coffee. The opening bars of a comforting familiar song. My youngest kid getting stuck in a giggle-loop.

2. Are you a morning person?

Yes!

It's long been said that people are hard-wired to be "morning people" or "night people". If that's true, I am the exception to the rule! I was a "night person" until about my late-20s and then suddenly flipped to being a "morning person".

It used to really suit me at my old job: I could get up early and, while I was feeling most fresh and productive, get started at work before the kids woke up. Then I could take a break to ensure they had breakfast and got to school, and then return to my desk for deeper work, building upon the foundations I'd laid earlier while I was feeling more-imaginative and inspired. And then I could knock off early a couple of days a week to take shifts at afternoon childwrangling, too.

My new job's less-good for that, because they're less-good at "asynchronous" thinking... and so I end up in lots of meetings with people eight timezones West of me, which means my synchronous "morning standup" meetings are now at around 5pm in my timezone, ugh!

3. If you could pause time, would you?

All the damn time!

Under the assumption that this magical ability somehow pauses time for everybody but me, and somehow does so without any other knock-on effects (which doesn't seem like it'd make much sense from a physics standpoint), I'd use that for all kinds of purposes.

I'd also enjoy being able to do the opposite and accelerate time, "missing out" on some time in the present (perhaps at night) in order to live longer and thereby see more of the future. Or at least to counteract all of the ageing I'd presumably end up doing while I'd paused time for everybody else.