Anyway, the paper prints a photo of the person featured and
then asks a series of questions, printing their answers. The questions are not
always the same. Naturally, many of the questions have to do with topics in
direct correlation to the person’s occupation or whatever it is for which they
have been chosen to be interviewed. But there is one question that is always
and consistently asked of each interviewee, and that is “How many hours of
sleep do you get a night?”
I have always kind of laughed about this. Almost every
person, without fail, answers with a number less than 8 hours. There are a few really wise people that will answer 8 hours. But it almost seems
like it has been some kind of competition that would reveal the less hours of
sleep one gets in a night, the more successful one must be.
I believe I have read some state they get only 4
hours of sleep on an average. And of course there are a lot of 6 hour
responses. I just want to say “WHATEVER!
How many naps do you take every day?”
I’m not saying they are fudging their answers…I mean who am
I to say? I require at least 8 hours every night! And sometimes I prefer 9! But that’s just
me. One could probably assume from that, if based on everyone else’s response,
that I am not successful. WHATEVER! I
just want to get a good night’s rest!
I find the older I get the more difficult that is. I don’t
fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow anymore. Sometimes I wake in the
middle of the night with pain in my hip or back. I’m always up at the crack of
dawn, whether I was able to meet my 9:30 pm retirement deadline or not. But I do like to
sleep.
I am not one for daytime naps. My husband and son would
argue that. They think I always fall asleep the minute we are driving somewhere
of any distance in the car, and without fail they tell me I fall asleep the
minute we all sit down to watch television and the movie begins. I guess that
is true. But generally speaking I don’t
like naps. They leave me feeling more exhausted and out of sorts. And then I
always feel like I have wasted precious hours when I could be getting something
accomplished.
The other day, however, I purposefully laid down for a nap. I
slept two hours! And then the day after that, I laid down for a morning nap at
10:30 and slept for an hour; and then I laid down again in the afternoon for
another hour nap. Yikes! What is that all about?
I slept again, yesterday, just after sitting down to O’Reilly at
5:00 pm. "I haven’t been feeling well," I rationalized. Every muscle in my
body has been aching for a week! Well,
a good deal more than the usual aches and pains, that is. "I’m reallllly not feeling well,"
I realized. I’m out of sorts! Sniffles and sore throat for 3 or 4 days, now; extra
sleep has been a necessity! I really don't feel well!! I have been thankful for the rainy days, so that I had an excuse to not work outside. I guess the Lord knew, too.
But anyway, I woke up to hacking in the middle of O’Reilly! "That feels
like a cold!" I told myself in wonderment. So I went to bed early. Woke up in the night, with a cough burning
deep in my chest; that’s when it hit me knowing that I know, “I have a cold!!”
I fell back to sleep, pleased that now I had an answer to
why I hadn’t been feeling well this week and sleeping so much. I awoke this morning feeling not a
bit refreshed, but with a headache, and cough and a stuffed up head. "Oh yeah,
it’s a cold," I realized. Sometimes I guess I am a bit of slow learner.
I guess I will never be one of those successful people that
only require 4 - 6 hours of sleep if it takes me five days and extra sleep to fully
comprehend that I have a cold.
I will take 8!
Ahhhh, sleep now. ;-)
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