I have to go with morning.
I love the fresh start, the whole day stretching out before me, full of possibilities and time.
I also love morning light.
I like that there are no mistakes yet in the day, as Anne Shirley would say.
Also, I tend to have my best energy in the morning. I’m not a night owl and I fade pretty quickly late at night.
Afternoons sometimes feel a little depressing to me, and evenings/night are not my favorite because they often are dark (with summer evenings being an exception because, light.)
And as we’ve been over before, I really like light.
(I should probably not ever work an overnight shift kind of job, because then I’d be up when it’s dark and sleeping while it’s light.)
I know it doesn’t make logical sense (or maybe it does?), but if I am in a period of life where I’m feeling worried/stressed/anxious, I always feel worse when darkness falls.
It’s almost as though the weight of my problems descends in tandem with the darkness.
But in the morning when the sun comes up, somehow the world and everything in it seems brighter and more manageable.
Even my problems!
So yes. Morning it is for me.
Definitely the morning! Everything is fresher, brighter, and full of possibilities.
The moments just prior & just after the sun comes up. His mercies are new every morning!
I do love mornings and agree with all you said about possibilities, hope, light…BUT I am not a “morning person”! I have a hard time waking up, getting going, being productive until late morning. Late afternoons, evenings, are my time. But I do wonder if it’s because I’m caught up in a bad pattern or cycle. But I have been like this my whole life, even as a child. Has anyone been able to change from being a night person to a morning person? Luckily my work schedule is flexible.
I do think there’s at least a large component of this that is innate. No matter what I try, I have not been very successful at any efforts to switch to a later schedule. No matter how late I stay up, my eyes still open between 6:30 and 7:00. So, if I stay up late, all I’m doing is guaranteeing a tired day the next day!
And I can definitely tell that I am less productive and that my brain works more poorly in late afternoon/evening than it does in the morning.
This post describes me to a T also! The light, bright, sunny days definitely make the rough times easier to take. There’s something in the beauty of a morning light and the sound of the world waking up outside that brings me so much joy…oh and the first cup of heavenly coffee 😉