French saying literally meaning « future belongs to those who wake up early ».

Being a not-getting-up-early-preferably kind of person, I don’t especially like this saying. Not that I feel like I lost my chance to own the future or anything like it. But I just don’t like the habit that get-up-early people have to scrub this phrase in people-like-me’s face when there is a confrontation about if it is better to get out of bed before sunrise (Solopgang… not quite as nice as solnedgang, but still pretty slick) or to stay wrapped in your deliciously warm bedsheets a little longer…

How can you own the future anyway? And what use can you make of it? Maybe I should investigate about lottery winners’ sleeping habits, that could be a lead. Do early birds get a weekly newsletter giving hints about things about to happen…?

Or is it a farther future then that? Because, quite frankly, seeing how Nostradamus is criticized, I am not interested in trading my lazy-assing hours of staying in bed for the knowledge that three hundred years from now, a monkey-dog will make the leader of the world trip and fall on the most famous tomato singer, triggering the 4^th world war! Thanks, but no thanks! Some people might take pride in thinking “hey, in 300 years, some people will say Cyranny was right!!” Yeah, but in 300 years, I’ll be long dead and not so much enjoying the little recognition that I had announced it in a local newspaper in 2016.

Another thing bothers me… How long do you have to get up early to claim your share of the future, and how early exactly do you have to be up? Example; for my work, I have to wake up at 3h45 for 3 days in a row every 5 weeks… I consider waking up before 4 o’clock dang early, so in my opinion, I should get a few future crumbles, but I don’t really know where to claim my due.

I guess I should ask an usual early bird… He should know!