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# The Homeless are Now Early Morning Risers
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/the-homeless-are-now-early-morning-risers/
- Published: 2022-02-06T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-06T14:14:48.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Idiosyncratic

My entire life, I've been taught early risers have a head start on success.

> Rise and shine!

> Get a jump on the day before it gets a jump on you. 

> The early bird gets the worm. '

> Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

> Seize the day.

> The dawn of a new day brings new opportunities.

On our travels, Marie and I love to get up early and explore big cities before the world wakes up. 

When your ears aren't filled with noise, you see better. Yeah, I don't understand that either, but it's true. 

Those days are gone. We jumped on a hot Kansas City morning last summer, looking for the Wilbur Harrison 12th Street and Vine Memorial. We had to turn back because the homeless were all over the place. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/2024/02/Wilbur.jpg)

The same phenomenon occurred in Austin and Vegas. 

Why are the homeless "up and at 'em"? 

Do they wake up and think, 

> "I got a lot of f'ing up to do. A lot of people depend on me soiling their early morning strolls and commutes.

Is is my *question du jour*: **Why do the homeless get up at the crack of dawn?** Do the homeless shelters kick them out? Everything else in them is broken but they have a robust circadian clock?

It's really bizarre. They spurn or ignore or fail at every other rule of a productive and satisfying life, except this one.