“The early bird gets the worm.”
This saying states that the early bird is more successful, as it gets to “work” on time and thus gathers & eats the worm.
Now that I think about it, I feel like birds lead the most stressful lives! If birds were humans, they’d totally be full-time accountants working a 7 a.m. to 5 p.m..
On a regular day, a bird would wake up at dawn, sing a little bit, leave the nest to gather food (worms), take it back to the nest, cut it up & feed it to its children right in their mouths. When the baby birds are grown enough to leave the nest, the parent bird would give them an initial push to encourage them to use their wings & fly.
Birds are totally the kind of parents who’d try to teach their children how to swim by throwing them right in the middle of a giant pool instead of hiring a proper coach. Their purpose is to trigger natural survival instincts & to teach the children that they could save their own selves when in trouble, but what a way to teach it!
When a bird is not too busy taking care of its family, it just enjoys chilling with its bird squad on top of electrical wires like they got no worries, & they all do some group traveling as well.
Birds are quite responsible, to be honest. They’re total engineers, as building beautiful nests comes naturally to them.
Sometimes I wonder what birds talk about when they’re chilling on top of electrical wires under a beautiful sunset. They’re probably discussing their daily bird problems.
This is how I imagine a bird-to-bird conversation would go:
“So I just finished building the most beautiful nest. It has enough room for my 3 unhatched eggs, plus a huge kitchen to keep the worm leftovers. It also has a huge backyard for the kids to play!”
‘Bruhhh my nest is way prettier. The MTV show CRIBS wanted to show it but I said no, because I want others to love me & my kids for who we are, not for what we own!’
Or something like:
“I was thinking of heading South next week, it’s getting pretty cold here.”
‘I wish I could join but I can’t, my eggs need a few more days to hatch & then it would be too soon for them to leave the nest.’
Or something like:
“Gurrrrl don’t get me started on this miserable old bird that I married. He does absolutely nothing around the nest. I gather, I feed, I build and he just expects things instead of appreciate them. Stupid, lazy, entitled, small-winged idiot.”
Anyways, back to my point: in this saying, there are two characters; the early bird & the early worm. The early bird made a good call by waking up early, as it got to have a delicious breakfast by eating the worm. The moral behind this is that when you wake up early, good things & good meals happen. You’ll get to run after your goals & you’ll get there in good time.
Meanwhile, people seem to forget about the poor early worm.
How did waking up early work out for it?
It didn’t.
By waking up early it risked its entire life & ended up being the bird’s meal. If it had only silenced the alarm clock & went back to sleep until noon, maybe it would still be here with us today. The moral of this point of view is that waking up early isn’t always a great idea because you’d be way too sleepy & tired to run for your life and you just might end up getting eaten or becoming someone’s breakfast. I honestly don’t know where I’m going with this, but I personally don’t relate to early birds, I am more of an early worm.
So, if you are too, silence that noisy alarm clock and GO BACK TO SLEEP!