Maybe it’s getting older (or maybe it’s because I gave up caffeine six months ago) but I find my batteries drain shortly after lunch and a thirty minute nap is in order.
I admit it. I’m going to be fifty this year. Yikes.
(Not that you couldn’t tell from guy still writing a blog in twenty-twenty six, but I ain’t a teenager anymore.)
I spend a good chunk of my mornings working on creative brain work, getting the important stuff off my plate, and being all professional.
Then I eat a (usually) healthy lunch.
And by one-thirty. Ugh. It’s all I can do to keep my eyes open. If life allows, I’ll close the lid of the computer and close my eyes, too.
I suppose it’s a universal truth of a sort, but if you can swing a nap to recharge your batteries in the middle of the day then do it. Don’t be ashamed. Don’t begrudge the sleepyheads. Don’t frown at someone who can use an extra half hour of rest.
Sleep is not wasted time. It is how our brains rejuvenate.
I always knew I’d get older some day. Heck, as they say, aging is a privilege and a monument to surviving this crazy universe. And if I can experience it a little more clearly after a few extra winks then all the better, right?
Terms FROm this POSt
- blog
- I admit, I am pretty old. And I started posting formatted words and photos online before the word blog had even entered the common lexicon. Most people work in the medium of social platforms these days, but being both a product of my time and a stickler for content ownership and control, I still lean into and promote the idea that a personal content managed general purpose website is the beating heart of the internet I once knew and loved. I use blogging software, but I don’t think of these sites like blogs, more like living documents that happen to look an awful lot like blogs.
- professional
- There is a formality to this term, linked to the idea of a captial-P professional like a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer. Instead, I often use it simple to refer to the span in my life as a average joe salaryman, sitting at a desk in a neat shirt and tie and replying to emails: I was a business professional, but lacking any real formal certification.
