'Your friends are selfish': Fed-up friend makes plans for 7:30AM, claims that millennials 'can't wake up early'

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JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor
May 21, 2024 8:00 PM EDT

Some people thrive in the morning. They wake up with energy, ready to tackle the day and all it may have in store. I think these people are lucky. Just because the rest of us have trouble waking up doesn't mean we don't want to. I'm aspirationally a morning person. It rarely works out, but it's a goal of mine. Sometimes when I'm forced to wake up early, I feel the glory of the morning-- the quiet hum, the birds chirping, the promise of a fresh day stretching out before you. But it doesn't take. The next day my body forces me in bed til the last minute, no matter how I wish to feel the power of the morning. 

But I don't think this endless push and pull is because of the year I was born. But the author of a recent Reddit post begs to differ after an incident with a group of millennials gets them thinking. 

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    r/ r/millenials u/LivingInSpace92 • 4d Why can't our generation wake up early??
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    Vent here. It's 6:50am, I've been up for 20 minutes. My friends (we are all millenials) and I have planned to go to a special event today for the past 2 weeks. Scheduled departure time: 7:30 I know how they all are, they'll snooze every alarm, they'll moan and groan when it's time to wake up, they'll spe,d 45 minutes in the shower knowing we need to leave to beat traffic and arrive on time. They'll want to stop for snacks and bathroom breaks.
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    And yet, nobody else is awake yet. I already know with 100% certainty that we will be late, despite my begging because I am the driver, and have been to this event before and warned them about the parking problems and missing things.
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    This happens EVERY time I plan things with friends. They are incapable of getting their I have no idea how they make it to work. They're going to out of bed. about the parking and lines. I'll get to listen to it. No amount of "I told you so" will make ot better. So annoying.
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    JUST WAKE UP!!!! It's not that bad. I post this here because honest to goodness my Gen X friends are never late, neither are any of my boomer family members. I don't have much Gen Z experience so can't speak on them, but this issue is unique to our generation so far in my experience.
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    marheena 4d . Why does "our generation" treat every little problem as if it's a systemic generational issue? You picked bad friends who treat you poorly? Better blame everyone aged 28-43! Give me a break.
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    Dependent-Law7316 • 3d Yeah, plenty of us are up well before 7am every single day. It's not a generational thing, it's just a "some people are not morning people" thing. I'm a morning person-wake up 6:30-7 am every day, no alarm; no caffeine needed. I'm also useless at staying up past ~10:30 most nights. My partner? Three alarms and a crowbar couldn't get him up before 7, and if you want anything coherent out of him before noon you'll need at least three cups of black tea. He's also routinely up
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    BlackCardRogue • 3d OP, the difference between your friends and me is that I would have looked at you and said "dude, I am not leaving at 7:30. If you leave then, you are leaving without me." I would have told you this a month ago. The difference is: I am not disrespecting your time, I am telling you "no" so you can make other plans accordingly. What your friends are doing is far worse.
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    Legal Opportunity851. 3d - Exactly this my husband is a Gen X who doesn't like to get up early. He will, on occasion, when warranted, but he has a strong preference to sleep in on weekends if he can. So he just says "no" and that's ok! Sometimes I get a surprise "yes," which is great - and he subsequently follows through with waking up early because he's not a like OP's friends appear to be...
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    63crabby. 4d Your friends are selfish, that's all. If you can't change the people around you, change the people around you.
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    BuzzBallerBoy • 4d Yeha none of my friends are like this. Not a millennial thing... sounds like a maturity issue
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    SunBubble920 · 4d What are your friends work hours and lifestyles? People that are busy I could see wanting to hit that snooze button. My sister is the type of person who just goes goes goes nonstop everyday, but she's also late to everything because she struggles to get out of bed because she stays up late. I know personally, when I worked a job that was 4pm-midnight, I wasn't going home after my shift and going to sleep. I was up till 3 or 4am which would result in me sleeping till noon or 1pm
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    aminorsixthchord • 4d Speak for yourself and your own friend group lol. "Why can't this generation separate their very small, subjective, experiences out and stop themselves from generalizing across stupid boundaries like generations and making Reddit posts about it?"
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    geopede. 3d Bailing/being late is pretty widespread. I think it's largely because of phones. Before everyone had a cellphone, people just showed up at the agreed upon time, there was no mechanism to bail last minute.
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    appa-ate-momo • 4d Disrespect for others' time is one of the fastest ways to get cut out of my life. I have no tolerance for that
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    Distorted Void • 3d Not everyone is a morning person though. There's enough science on sleep that shows that people have different sleep cycles entirely and its split into 3 categories. Morning person -- sounds like you are in that category. Night people who definitely cannot go to sleep that early and wake up that early. And then a middle ground that can float between the two.
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    BashKraft • 3d You're the crazy one because you keep making the same early morning plans knowing they will be late. Don't make early morning plans for them or tell them you have to leave earlier than you have to so you won't be late. Doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results is insanity. Get different friends or change what you are doing
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    SailTheWorld With Me • 3d I still have the sleep rhythm of a teen. 40 and still can't shake it.
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