Sleep…yeah, it’s overrated.
I admit it…I’m a complete night-owl. I regularly stay up beyond 1am (sometimes up to 3 or 4am). Seems that since I’ve gotten married and have kids, I have a LOT less time to myself to do things I want to do…so I think this is my way of still having time to play with technology on my own time.
I got to thinking about this the other day, and probably convinced myself even more that sleep is overrated. Sure I hear about all the studies that say you should get 8 hours of sleep a night or else you’ll have horribly bad health…but I can’t stop thinking about what that means over a lifetime.
Ya get 24 hours each day. If you follow the rules, your sleeping for 8 of those. Then if you work, you’re typically there at least 8-9 more of those. Factor in driving time, time to get ready in the morning, time for meals, time spent on kids changing diapers, brushing teeth, reading books, playing, etc..etc. There’s very little time left over. The one that bugs me the most is the 8 hours of sleep. 1/3rd of the day!
Factor that into a lifetime. If you live 99 years…that means 33 of those are spent sleeping! So really, you’re only really living 66 total years of that. Something really bugs me about the fact that 33 years would be spent essentially doing nothing but laying unconscious.
So, that’s probably why I try to squeeze as time out of a day awake doing things. My sleep schedule isn’t for everyone, I admit that. I’m conditioned to do it now. I can sleep later in life…when I’m older and on a beach in Hawaii somewhere. But in my younger years in this high-tech, fast moving world, with lots of stuff happening in life with the job, family, home, etc… I prefer to stay awake.
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