Balance

When you travel you will encounter all kinds of different makes and models of people. You will meet the happy ones, the trippy ones, the evil ones, the grumpy ones, you name it and I've probably met it while traveling. Here is just a little story about one of the nicer happier people I have met.

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I am not a morning person. I never have been, and I highly doubt that I ever will be. It is a very rare thing for me to wake up in the morning and feel ready to face the world. In fact first thing in the morning I am a thing of evil.

I avoid caffiene products at all costs since for some unknown reason coffee has the reverse effect on me and will knock me unconscious for hours on end.While other normal people are draining the world's supply of coffee which seems to give them superpowers I am groggy and cranky and ready to judo kick the first thing that reminds me happiness and joy.

I think it's probably a good thing that not everyone in the world is as evil as I am in the mornings otherwise the whole universe would hit a hate overdrive and implode. While I know that not everyone is as groggy as me in the mornings, I had no idea that there were actually people who were happy to be alive at the crack of dawn. That was of course until I was taking some extra courses at massage school in Thailand and a new student joined in for the week course. Up to this point I did not realise how super happy and cheerful a person really could be in the mornings (and throughout the rest of the day). *Points to illustration* That's Kris, by the way.

Having never witnessed such joyful behavior I was at first wary. Myself and another student became convinced that Kris could not be from this planet. We decided that she was most likely born and raised on candy mountain.

Bless her soul, she was so sweet and patient with all the morning haters.

No joke, it would be overcast that day but the second that Kris came dancing in the sun would start shining.

While I am known for my dark sense of humor I must say it was rather refreshing to have happy joyful Kris around to brighten up the day. I admit that I am a tad jealous of how naturally happy she is. I do actually wonder what her secret is. Behind closed doors is she secretly evil?

Nah, I doubt it. I'm sure that back at her home she has a whole farm full of unicorns and rainbow kittens who adore her.

Well whatever the reason, I am rather relieved to discover that there are people out there whose happiness balances out the cloud of gloom that is casted by those who like me loathe the rising of the sun.