Night Watch by Frances Clara

Night Watch by Frances Clara - January 2019 Scholarship Essay

I’m more of a night owl because of the association that I have with it and the morning. I have a deeper and more positive relationship with the night. When I think of morning, I see bustling people, I see waking up and tired, and most of all I associate it with school. I personally don’t enjoy school because of a few struggles that I’ve gone through. I do well and take difficult classes but the demand and stress that goes along with it can be overbearing. The morning allows a person to wake up into the next day and get on with life. People don’t really take the time to relax and enjoy the little things more. In the night, I feel the most productive because it’s a time where I can just enjoy in the moment. Most people are asleep and are dreaming. They have hope for the future until the sun of the next morning shines in and that slumber comes around to end it. The night has always appealed to me more since I was a child. It has a contrast to the morning.

The night is quiet and no one can really judge a person as they live life in silence. The night is prettier to me too. Those who wait until the night to do certain things hold a sense of patience in them. In the night, people strive to live in their own way. The moon and stars shine as well as the lights of a beautiful city. There’s nothing to force people to move. Instead there is that feeling that you can move in any direction you want without the extra judgement. People sleep and dream while others end up living the dream by being awake in the night. I don’t get tired easily in the night and I feel that in the morning there is just that deep interruption to the serenity that the night brought. The sun rises to blind you. Time freezes in the night. That’s why I prefer the night so much. I get to do things as myself, moving at my own pace and not getting distracted. I’m more productive being alone with my mind.