In the morning
THE ONLY thing worse than not being able to fall asleep at night is waking at the crack of dawn and not being able to go back to sleep.
For some or other reason, your eyes snap open hours before it’s time to hit the snooze button and there is nothing, nothing that will let you continue that dream you were having about being the winner of Survivor... and shedding those pesky 5kgs in the process.
There’s nobody to talk to and you’re all alone. What do I usually do? I switch on the telly and channel hop. And this is where I am certain channels conspire to make the already annoying fact that you’re up way before you have to be even more abhorrent.
Because unless you’re into farming, want to catch up on some serious world news coverage at that hour or need to catch a re-run of a kiddies’ show (!), there is a dire lack of anything to watch on television while the birds wake up outside and the light starts to filter into your home.
This morning is a perfect example.
Just after 5am you can either keep up with the frenetic YO TV presenters on SABC1, or switch over to SABC3 and World Today to feed your guilt complex with an in-depth coverage of a crisis in a forgotten corner of the world, far removed from your comfy bed.
Hallelujah Africa on e.tv may be the perfect wake-up call for our peaceable Christian brothers but personally, I think a movie would hit the spot better.
Which leaves Agri TV, a little “later” at 5.30am on SABC2 or Sky News - yawn - on M-Net at 6am. Although at least on Sky you can secretly gloat about how miserable the weather is in London. I picture my mates over there wishing they could catch a glimpse of the African sun.
Reverse insomnia is a bleak condition to endure ... and the TV powers-that-be definitely aren’t doing us sufferers any favours.
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