Izu's World

Mornings… I don’t really like waking up early on my days off classes, but when I do wake up early there is one thing that I love – the world is still asleep.

Today is a sunny spring morning. The birds are singing, the air is cool and fresh. Everything is green and occasionally white and pink-ish from all the blossoming trees. The streets are empty. Even the usual stray dogs are nowhere to be seen. It’s quiet…

But no longer. My family starts moving around, slamming doors because they have no sense of… being loud? And there we go – they start shouting at each other, because that’s the way we talk. Seriously. I don’t know how three people (my mother, my older brother and my grandmother) can be so loud, and how I have turned out so… quiet. Not that I don’t shout. I do shout most of the time when I talk to them because otherwise they don’t listen. But if no one annoys me I can stay silent for days.

And then people wonder why I dislike holidays when it’s ‘family time’, and why I enjoy nights and early mornings so much. There is nothing more precious to me than peace and silence. I tend to get headaches easily and listening to people shouting… well, it doesn’t help much. And no… it’s not like we are some always fighting family. We just talk loud, walk loud, exist loud.

And there it is my lovely Saturday morning being turned into yet another morning of slamming doors, noisy people and another headache crawling in my head…