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?