# Alarm Awakening

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-09-30

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If your alarm doesn’t go off, did you still oversleep?

Mine didn’t this morning.

My disciplined, refined morning routine was destroyed before it even started.

I took a breath.

“This is all part of the training,” I thought.

Acceptance set in immediately. No anger. There was nothing I could do about that fact.

The adaptation and adjustment began.

I guess the alarm woke me up after all.

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