A World That's Tired of Waking Up

Listening to a song on the radio and waking up every morning to a dark bedroom and the sound of cars on the highway outside got me thinking: isn't it tiring have to wake up every morning at a prescribed time? I suppose I understand why we have a certain time-clock, although unlike during the late 19th century, we needed a timed schedule for trains, nowadays, the only reason I see we needing times is for school and work, and who says we absolutely need those times to be the way they are? I've always loved the romanticized idea of what my dad says they do (or at least used to) in Africa. When the village had a town meeting, they would all meet somewhere, and everyone would come from their little houses or huts (or whatever they are in Africa, I'm none the wiser), but here's the catch: say they wanted to start the meeting at mid-day (note here that there isn't an exact time), each person, depending on how far away he lived from the meeting place, would leave his hut/house and start walking. They would all start walking, until they all met in the same place. Doesn't this sound like a much better system of meeting people? Well, maybe in a perfect world, we'd all live ten minutes away and could meet a little earlier. But is that necessarily a perfect world? Wake up people! It's not! "I've been sleeping in for days, 'cause when I am awake, I will have to face my life..." That's a line from one of my favorite songs, and it describes exactly what I feel every time I wake up. What I wouldn't give to get up at 6am, not to go to school or some robotronic workplace, but just to see the sunrise and watch as the day unfolds. Too bad I live in a world that's too tired to wake up.