Welcome 2011

GOODBYE 2010!!

WELCOME 2011!!

With the new year ringing in last night, and having an entire day to recover and think about what's important.. I decided it was time for me to get serious. i thought about everything that's been bugging me and there is one things that's been bothering me for years. Hopefully you guys can help me make sense of this whole thing and i can get past it already.

Have you guys ever heard the phrase "The Early Bird gets the Worm"?

I mean of course you have.. Its one of those things that moms say that are supposed to help you learn that getting up early is good for your or something.. Even though at this point parents really don't tell us stuff like this anymore, they'd just yell until we get up. I guess phrases like this nowadays are becoming less and less effective, because we just cant seem to make sense of them anymore. how many times have you actually seen a bird eat a worm right? I've gotten up pretty damn early before.. Still never seen it. Went to school real early and saw a seagull eating throw up once.. but using the phrase "the early seagull gets the throw up" would probably be counterproductive to getting someone to wake up early. But i degress..

So my problem with the "early Bird" phrase is what happens if u get up early and something gets up really early.. I guess in that case it didnt help you to be early didnt it?..









Similarly, what if getting up early and being the first to be there is actually a bad thing.. which is the case with mice.. Now the early bird mouse gets killed and then the late mouse actually gets the cheese.. Give you something to think about doesnt it?







And in my final thought about the "early bird" phrase.. not all of us can be birds. Some of us are worms.. So the early bird gets the worm, but then the early worm just gets eaten.. Well that really sucks. I guess this phrase doesn't work for worms. But if you were a worm, you really don't got a lot going for you anyways.. Living in the dirt and not being able to tell your butt and your face apart is a tough way to live.

And then of course there's this situation.. hah























All kidding aside.. Getting up early in the morning can't always be a good thing. And its not just for everyone. I enjoy burning the midnight oil and working while most people are asleep. Some of the most creative people around were known to be night owls.. Elvis Presley and Winston Churchill to name a couple. Creativity flourishes at night.. look it up.


- ERN



P.S Look for my next post on another problematic proverb.

"NO MAN IS AN ISLAND" I beg to differ..