waking up at 4am

i know, it sounds really stupid. waking up at 4 am, a good thing!? well, i would not want to do it everyday. but. every once in a while, it is wonderful. you get up and no one else is awake. for some reason everyone's either asleep or in their own corner at 4 am... i feel like it's the slowest hour of the world. so no ones up and very few people are out on the roads. the night seems so much crisper and solid at 4 am. its still kinda cool. it's dark but if you look up you can see billions of stars. something about being up when the rest of the world is sleeping. and then getting up early so that you can hike to the top of a mountain and see the beautiful sun rise. as oddly as it sounds, waking up at 4 am and hiking was really redemptive for my soul. :)