What's so great about early?

My mom says I should get more of my hours of sleep before midnight and get up earlier, claiming this is "better" and etc.  During the school year she and my dad get up at five so they can... I can't see anything necessary to do at five.  A friend gets up at four because he enjoys the sunrise and another friend regularly gets up at six because she is a morning person.

I am a night person.  And I'm not the only one.  For instance, I have two brothers who are also night people.  This is not simply because getting up after eight in the morning is desirable, but also because night is fantastic.

At night there are noises you don't hear during the day, maybe because your other senses are too busy with everything going on in the light.  But at night the velvety darkness encompasses secrets.  The temperature is cooler and the air smells better.  Also, I get really good alone time at night.

This morning I am up at five.  It is bullocks.  I'm mostly up at five because I went to bed around ten and then haven't been able to sleep well.  I cannot get and stay comfortable and pain and general discomfort keeps waking me up by the hour.  Even with my iPod to distract me from it.  So I'm watching the sunrise and frankly don't see what's so great about it and still find it depressing to wake up to dark.  Much better to wake up to a morning in progress.

I know with certainty now that I won't always be in pain like this.  I rejoice.  However, it still sucks right now, to be awake primarily because of it.

Picture is of a southern Idaho sunrise.  I didn't take one of this sunrise because I'm not going outside to do it.  I may be awake, but I haven't had any coffee or anything and a girl has her limits.