Early on in life, like very young, there were less rules. And in the morning, you had no alarms designed to specifically wake you up at a certain time. You just woke up.

Then, things happened. School started. And now I had an alarm. In the shape of a human. One of the parents. Usually my father.

He rushed into my room, started singing a wake-up song and let me drag myself out of the bed to start my day. Pleasant? Not really. Necessary? Probably.

After some years, I upgraded from the "human alarm" to an electronic device. At first it was my phone. Then it was a smart watch or a smart band of sorts. I even had a smart light bulb waking me up during one winter.

And then... then my family grew. And with that change, I no longer needed any device to wake me up because I had a new human that did it. For a while, at least.

I am pretty sure that after some, hopefully, many years will have passed, I will complete the cycle and get back to having no alarm whatsoever.