life is so difficult

May 27, 2008 at 9:45 pm | In personal, philosophizing | 2 Comments

I really don’t understand how it got to be this way. How did this all develop? Why didn’t we think of something simpler? Why weren’t honesty, love, and letting go made the most important values of society as soon as man became intelligent enough to think of them? Those are the things that will make us all most happy. If everything we have now was developed with those things in mind, we’d all be having only high class problems nowadays. I hope anyway.

I wish I could do whatever I wanted. But I care how you feel. I hope everyone feels the same way.

I worry I will never fall in love. I like, I love, but fall in love, I have no idea.

I worry that work time will have to consume my existence. And if I choose a life that affords me much less work time, then lonliness and depression and feeling like an odd man out will consume my existence.

I wish I could have sex worry-free.

I wish I could re-meet some people.

I wish I was more confident.

I wish the powerful type-A’s were more empathetic.

I wish I was already asleep.

I wish I was going to be in the mood to blog and sing during this week.

I wish I will be happy in new york or somewhere that makes me happy some day.

 

 

circadian rhythms are there for a reason

May 3, 2008 at 8:56 am | In personal, social critic | Leave a Comment

It’s Saturday. :) You know what that means. I get to sleep until I actually wake up! AAAAHH, thank goodness, I am truly lucky!!

I am a firm believer that people should NOT be waking up before their sleep cycle is over. Part of what makes me this passionate about that idea is that I am not a morning person. I really feel the effects of getting yourself up before your body and mind wake up. I can clearly tell that it is something that your body should not be doing. Ironically, whenever I have to get up, I am very conscious and alert…my body just hurts a lot. It takes me a good 20 minutes to rouse myself from bed when I wake up before my sleep cycle is over. It only takes about 2-5 minutes when I wake naturally.

This is kind of a hard topic to say anything definite about because everyone’s developments and needs with sleep are so different. When I was a kid, I got up every morning at 6am to get ready for school. IT SUCKED. On the weekends I could sleep until 10am, easy, even though my circadian rhythm was used to 10pm-6am. I was young and my body could use the sleep.

I finally experienced a change in the last couple years (I will be 25 this month). Relatively speaking, I still need more sleep than what the average person usually takes (I like to get 7-9 hours, 9 being quite enough, and I think most people get 5-7 or something). Nowadays, I wake up between 8:00 and 9:30am no matter what. I recently started a new job, so now my rhythm is going more toward 11pm-7am, but the past month has not gotten me to a point where I wake up naturally at 7 yet.

It totally depends on your age, and what your body needs, but it really bothers me that people don’t sleep enough in American culture. Some people only really need 5 or 6 hours, some need 9, but I wish everyone had the luxury (I guess it’s a luxury – I think of it as a necessity!) of waking up naturally. It’s so much better for you, not so hard on your body and mind. Unfortunately, there’s always so much to do, and never enough time to actually get to things you want to do, so first goes sleep… then showering. Or for some people, vice versa.

I hope you got to wake up naturally and comfortably this morning!

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