Originating from the Latin word matutīnus , morning is an adjective that refers to what is linked to the morning time . What develops or takes shape at the beginning of the day , therefore, is classified as morning.
For example: “I prefer the morning time to write” , “The team coach informed that tomorrow the players will have a morning training session and then they will have the rest of the day free” , “The journalist was summoned to host a new morning news program on the public television channel .
The morning begins with sunrise and ends at noon . In this way, it arrives after dawn and lasts until the afternoon begins. Those activities that take place in this period are morning.
The concept is often used in the media. Some time ago it was common for some newspapers to have two editions: a morning one and an afternoon one . The morning news was published in the morning, while the afternoon news appeared in the afternoon.
The morning programming of a radio station or a TV channel, meanwhile, runs from 6 or 7 a.m. to 12 noon. Many times the programs are informative so that people can start the day knowing what the main news is.
An educational institution , on the other hand, can have two shifts: the morning shift and the afternoon shift . It is even possible that you have a third shift (the night shift ). In this way, students can choose, according to their needs, between different class times .
The adjective morning is also used to designate people who have an easier time getting up in the morning and who feel more full of energy in the first hours of the day. Once again, it is opposed to evening , one who has trouble getting up early and who only becomes active in the afternoons. It is common for the latter to be accused of being lazy or lazy .
Morning people are usually called "larks" and evening people are called "owls", precisely because of the times these birds prefer to carry out their activities. We must emphasize that no person is more or less dedicated to their work or responsible because they belong to one group or the other: the main difference is the period of the day in which they have more energy and are more lucid .
Apparently, behind this very common difference is the production of melatonin, a protein that morning people secrete during the first hours of sleep and evening people, during the last hours. This allows the former to rest well during the night and get up more easily, although it also leads them to get tired earlier than the others.
And this is where everything balances out: morning workers tend to perform much better during the first hours of work , in addition to not having any problem complying with office opening hours, no matter how early it may be; However, towards the end of the day they often struggle with fatigue because they have exhausted much of their energy, just when the evening workers reach their best moment.
In 1997, scientist Joseph Takahashi discovered the so-called "clock gene", which is responsible for regulating the secretion of melatonin and, needless to say, cannot be altered. In other words, the ease or difficulty of getting up early and starting the day with a high level of productivity depends on genetic issues, which we cannot change and which are not related at all to personal preferences or whims. For this reason, everyone should look for activities appropriate to their melatonin production to perform at one hundred percent.