To sleep, perchance, to…

No, just sleep for me, please.

How many times have you found yourself barely standing, trembling and feeling infinitely miserable, thinking…I’ll go to bed as soon as I get home. Ha-ha. I don’t mean to be mean, after all, I have the same problem, but, still. Why do we have such a huge problem with finding enough time to sleep?

By the time you get home, you’re usually pretty much awake, and after you’ve eaten, you need to do all sorts of things, like check your VK or Facebook account (or both), read your mail, work, VK or Facebook again, tweet something, eat some more, try to workout, fail, go back to VK or Facebook, and so on, so forth, until you realize that it’s 3:00 in the morning, and you’re supposed to be getting up in three hours.

 

So, then you think: I can’t fall asleep now, I won’t be able to wake up! So you make up your mind to stay awake. And THE VERY moment that thought enters your head, BAM! Your eyelids start drooping, your head feels heavy, and you decide to just sit back on the couch (or your bed) for a second, and may be close your eyes just for a minute, and then…it’s 9:00 AM, and you’re an hour late.

                                                                                           

But even if you’re lucky enough to react to the sound of alarm, you immediately curse your luck, because, and I’m sure that most of you will agree with me, waking up after having had just two or three hours of sleep. Is. Horrible. Whatever plans or thoughts you might have had regarding this day, they’re gone. There is no way that you’re doing morning yoga. A big, healthy breakfast or 30 extra minutes of sleep? Hm…what kind of question is that?! Sleep! Dressing nice? Applying make-up? (Guys – hair product)?

NO. YOU'RE CHOOSING. SLEEP.

So…is there a way out? Sure. There’s always a way out. I could tell you that you should plan your day, drink some herbal tea that will help you relax, delete your FB profile…but the ONLY real solution to the problem is to make yourself so tired during the day that by 9:00 PM you will fall snoring the moment you reach your bed, or whichever horizontal surface it is that you usually sleep on. So my advice to you (and myself) is:

If you want to get enough sleep – make yourself DO STUFF.