WHY do we say "Good morning"?

I don't know who started it but I didn't used to be a morning person and hated to hear it. Then a motivational speaker changed my life and I began telling myself it was a good morning before I got out of bed. Soon I believed it and my whole day improved and I was able to say it cheerfully and sincerely. When I got up in pain from my back, I still knew it was a good morning because I could walk and wasn't in a wheelchair. Etc., etc. Your life is what you make it and your attitude is responsible for most of the good stuff that happens to you. I don't mean to lecture, just telling you what worked for me and still does. The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

it just make the morning feel better, i am not a morning person too...

Possibly someone who is/was content,confident and happy in life. Someone who maybe thought that wishing others good morning would make them feel better and actually start to have a good morning like passing on the luck of a good day? Someone who had no worries of where the money they needed was going to come from or that never had a sick day in their lives. In the morning's I hurt more then any other time of the day mostly. But my husband is the one who wakes up a bear in the mornings although he never was a morning person..lol You say good morning to him and he will just give you a weird look and say What is so good about it?..which I say well, your alive and breathing that should be good..lol..

I think the saying is probably tied to it being a Good Day if you wake up. Lord knows it's not a good day (morning/afternoon/evening) if you don't....right?

Hi 3honor!. I had my morning bad mood sometimes but I try not offend any one, its common in my family not to talk to me when I am just silent when they talk to me. Thats good on not happen many times or I will making every one tantrum. I think they say good morning because they hoping we will have good day .

I think the purpose of the greeting good morning is to great our self and anybody that they have a nice day started with beautiful morning

I can't say I am cranky in the Morning but I have always been a Person that needed at least half an hour to herself in the Mornings and when I had the Children I still got it When they where Babies it did not worry me so much when they got older I always used to get up half an hour earlier to what they did, have my Coffee and shower and that was me ready then

i think it is just a natural saying in the morning. i know people say to me how are you. i am in chronic pain........ i cannot stop them. i understand how you feel. the best to you.

You know, I have absolutely no clue who or how this started. I'm even 100% sure why we even say it. All I know is that we say it and people have been saying for quite some time.

oH MY, I am probably guilty of telling u good morning on here. i'll try to remember not to do that. I know what u mean by feeling bad in the mornings, i do to but still like mornings the best, always have. How many more days?? Maybe that will keep u from being a soretail, lol.

To say good morning is a habit. It is also a gesture of good wish. I find no wrong in it. Good night bunny.

Of course I am just speculating here, but I think that the reason that people use the term "Good Morning" on such a regular basis is because of the fact that it is like a new beginning. When we wake from bed in the morning, you never know what is going to become of the day. If we start the day with a bright outlook on it, then I think that we are more likely to have a good day. That said, even though I know that it irritates you, "Good morning."

Hiya bunny, I don´t know either was it something to try and be polite to other People and have conversation with them or what. Maybe that´s it the being polite and the conversation also. Sorry you don´t feel good in the Mornings though it must be a grind just to get through one hour let alone a whole day if you are not feeling good. Hope you get better bunnybon.

Because attitudes are contagious. If someone wishes you a "good" morning they hey, why not? I have had nothing but craptastic days lately, and I know what you mean by not wanting to hear it. But if someone says good morning to me, I don't know, it just seems to make me feel better. Just a little bit. And maybe not even enough to matter. But its nice, and I'm glad there are nice people out there, because I don't fit into that category most of the time.

well i like saying good morning to every one in the monrinings.. and receive good morining from others.. i think it is a great way to start a conversation.. after all you start the morning with a blessing and it is good for others and for u at the same time.. the important thing is when you say good morning mean it by your heart and soul.. dont fake it.. words are so powerful and dont forget that...

I understand your view point there. I do not know who started it. Hearing "Good morning" used to irratate me too. I'd usually respond with a "Morning". I was never a cheery morning person and loved staying up late. However about a year ago i desided to get up early everyday. Im starting to like it when i think of the possitive things about. Like you can hear the birds chirping early in the morning. I still like late nite too. Usually a little naps helps in between.I also noticed a cheery "good morning" doesnt sound as bad now either.

we say it just to express our good mind.. it will surely provide a positive energy to the person hearing it.... these were actually preceded with "God give you a"...Good morning..night... thanks for asking and sharing... have a great day/night.....

I do believe that saying or greeting Good Morning to everyone is a sigh of wishing everybody to have a good one. We are the one who starts this maybe in different languages. It is just a greeting no need to think about the one who started nor invented.

Greeting each other when two people meet first tikme in the day is only gesture of goodwill.We cannot attribute any special significance to these words.It is only wishing each other a happy day without any problems or worries of any type.This tradition is prevelent in all religions and in all partws of the world without any exception.As I noticed it is only a formality in West without any meaning but in the Eats I somehow felt thet do it somegesture and thereby some meaning.Franlky I do not belong to either East or West.There is no historical evidence as when and where it originated.But I have a strong feeling that the origin can be traced to Adam and Eve.Unless they greeted eachother they would not have met.Leave alone arguments about it origin " Good Morning " with additon to you gives good feeling at the begining of the day

An interesting topic!