The real me is not what I'm today. Character is just one thing that kept me moving as I have abandoned some of those old characters behind, while some have been minimized to the last level.
Sporadically when you have decent but some unwanted characters in you, something can bring them to be minimalized.
I had this habit of not sleeping at night. I can play with my phone until it's 3 pm or more. This was a habit in me that I developed from my childhood friend. He can call from 12am to 5am. Anytime he travels to school, he will call me at night and speak up words that are not relevant. I would have this mind of sleeping off, but would still want to listen to his words. Every so often it may be to gossip about something or someone's habit. I'm the type who loves obeying people even though, as well as my friends. After the call, when it's dawn, I will start the real phase of sleeping.
He has been doing this time without number and day in, day out. At some point, my body could not carry it, but then I just have to fulfil all righteousness.
When I met my wife, we started with midnight calls, but then she told me she was not comfortable with it, and so I had to adjust the calling time. After some days of calling, she started observing that anytime she called during the daytime, I always slept off. She asked to tell her the reason for that habit. Being my wife-to-be, I was ready to pour my mind to her. I told her about the midnight call my friend introduced me to. I also told her that this midnight call is now part of me and every night, I would wake up even when not making calls, but would sleep the hell out during the daytime. After explaining to her, she said anytime my friend should call, I should answer it the first day, but switch off my phone the next day.
I tried her magic, but it worked. Although I don't like switching my phone off at night as anything can happen that your attention may be needed either to render help or something else. Switching my phone off became one day and on the next day became part of me.
Next, she asked me to ignore the call sometimes to have a relaxed and healthy night of rest. I tried to argue with her that ignoring the calls would not work out. She said I should place the phone on silent and pretend to have slept off.
I also tried this second method and indeed it worked out so perfectly. Some days later, I began to get myself gradually as I was minimizing my time so well just to have a perfect sleep.
Presently, I can say that my girlfriend, who is now my wife, had made me minimize one part of my character I was developing years ago. Presently, I do wake up by some minutes past 3 and sometimes 4 or some minutes past 4. It's a good one for me and good to have someone who can change or minimize some unwanted characters in you.
One thing I have converted the time to do instead of wasting it is either to prepare my write-up for Hive or to make some prayers. And every so often I go to the kitchen to cook, just to relieve or help my wife.
I started writing this post at 3:30 am. When it gets to this time, sleep cannot draw closer to me.
All thanks to my wife for the minimalist character she had made me run from.