'Your adult bedtime tells me everything I need to know about you.'

The circle of life has nothing to do with an entitled nepo baby lion singing about how he demands to be king one day. Nope, I believe in the feline republic.

The circle of life is the beautiful moment you realise that for your entire childhood you hated having a designated 'bedtime' until... you became an adult and discovered you have fallen right back into the habit with open arms.

Yep, an adult bedtime.

Because let's be real: sleeping patterns are important and if you're not going to sleep at a similar time each night then your life will probably fall off the rails. Well, at least that's my experience.

In my adult years, especially once I passed 30, my bedtime has become sacred, and yes, it's gotten earlier and earlier as the years tick by. I make no apologies!

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'Why would you be awake when you could be asleep?' is something someone probably said once.

Gone are the days when I would regularly roll into bed at 11pm, lay staring at the ceiling until 1am when I fell asleep only to have to wake again at 7am.

If you're still in that place, love and light to you. But I will happily saunter over to my sexy vixen bed as early as 8pm these days — typically no later than 9pm.

It's here that the magic begins and by magic, I mean, I get so cosy and snuggly that all the day's stress leaves my body. I either read a book, listen to a podcast or watch a TV show on my laptop before I'm falling into a slumber by 10:30pm at the latest.

This is just me, but I also happen to know exactly what your adult bedtime says about you.

7pm: You get s**t done.

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I'm all for an early bedtime, but come on? You've literally just had a shower and eaten dinner. You need to dry off and let that food go down before you roll into bed.

But I get it, you're an early riser because you've got sh*t to do the next day — whether it's a gym class, a coastal run, or the kids' dropoff at school.

You're all about streamlining your life to make it as simple as possible.

You're the type to eat the same salmon and rice for five meals a week, after you meal-prepped on Sunday. But while you try to keep your own everyday activities controlled, your social and love life is typically a bit of a mess.

Whether you're feuding with your partner or spouse, or you're trying to act as a mediator within your friend group, there's always drama brewing. This means your 7pm bedtime is a must to decompress each day.

8pm: You're a sucker for a special treat.

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For you, life is all about the time leading up to a special treat. In fact, you tend to award yourself a special treat for basic tasks like sending an email or remembering to floss.

And why would you not send yourself to bed at 8pm to get some extra sleep? It's the ultimate special treat.

You deserve it! But it's not all early nights and treating 'yo-self, you're the type to overly fret about basically everything that happened every day. Your day often ends with a montage of your most embarrassing moments playing on repeat.

But this is easily drowned out by all the TV you typically binge all week. A new rom-com on Netflix? A thriller series on Stan? You'll watch it all.

9pm: You're the life of the party.

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Girlies need their rest and this girlie likes to think she has it all figured out.

You're the life of the party, everyone's favourite coworker, and the most prized child in the family, but that takes a lot of energy.

You are the type of person to go out of your way to make people happy, whether it's buying the whole team their morning matcha lattes, or bringing in flowers for everyone's birthday. However, you do wonder if your people-pleasing is not actually serving you in the long run.

But away from work and friends, your love life is often stuck in a rut. Whether you're staying in a relationship past its expiration date or not giving enough attention to putting yourself out there, it can be tough out there to balance it all.

10pm: You're the glue that holds your friendship group together.

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Don't get me wrong, if you could, you would spend 24/7 in bed. You would bed rot the whole damn day.

But most nights, you're rolling in at 10pm after an evening of yapping with friends over dinner, heading out on a cute date, or just watching way too much of your parasocial girly TV programs, Gilmore Girls, New Girl and Gossip Girl.

There's simply too much to fit in the day and you often find yourself overwhelmed or getting distracted. To ease your anxieties, you take a hot girl walk around your local neighbourhood before work each day.

Socially, you're the glue that holds your friendship group together. You have to humble brag that the gang would never get together if it wasn't for you suggesting a round of trivia at a new pub, or a gig at local bar.

But you're strict on the evening having to kick off no later than 7pm because you, of course, have your blessed bed waiting at 10pm.

11pm-12am: You can't be trusted on Instagram after a few cocktails.

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Most days you keep to yourself and stay in your lane.

You have loads of friends but you know the real ones from the types to come and go. At the same time, you're fiercely independent and are more than happy to do stuff on your own.

But when you do get social, you tend to make some rather chaotic decisions, especially in your love life. There's no one more ready and willing to send a rogue DM to an ex or shoot your shot with a hot stranger on Instagram than you after a few cheeky cocktails.

When all else fails, your mantra is 'do it for the plot', and you always come through with unhinged stories to regale your friends with.

1am-3am: You're a chaos demon.

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You make some interesting choices but you always have the best time.

Sure, you take about two hours to feel like a walking/talking human when you drag yourself out of bed each morning, but you always manage to snap out of it.

At work, you're the co-worker who sparkles the brightest: your charisma is undeniable, as is the friendships you've built with basically everyone on the team, including your manager's son's girlfriend's friend.

What can you say? You make friends easily. But while your social life thrives, you don't spend half as much attention on your health as you should. You drink so many energy drinks that your blood is basically pumping with Monster.

But you don't mind as downing these drinks allows you to live your life in two separate but delightful worlds: the 9-5pm with your dearest friends and then the late-night hour where you watch TikToks and dig through YouTube conspiracies.

It works for you… for now, anyways!

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