Throughout my youth I was instructed in the age-old philosophy that prescribed:
“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”.
I practiced that tenet well into my middle years by bedding at dusk and rising at dawn.
Now, many years too late, I have discovered the inheritance of that old guideline is, in fact, far different from the promise it makes.
My health is questionable; my financial resources weak and I’ve never had much of a social life.
When I compare myself to my peers who, by ignoring the rule altogether actually enjoyed the fruits of our transient youth, I am finally left to question my wisdom.
The Desert Curmudgeon 