Greetings!
Talking about my sleeping lifestyle, I have really come a long way and have tried many patterns to get sleep under control—from my school days to this period of hustling.
Something that had never happened before happened at the beginning of this year when I traveled home for the holidays. On the exact day I was packing my bags to return to base, my mom, who had been trying to find a way to tell me what she had noticed, finally opened up. She told me how stressed I was looking and begged me, saying that if it was food, I hadn't been eating well, I should please eat properly. And if it was sleep, I hadn't been getting enough, I should please find time to sleep.
Those words struck me hard, and I quickly examined my feeding and sleeping lifestyle. I found out that it was obvious—I was lacking sleep, and that was the reason behind whatever she noticed in my physical appearance.
To be very truthful, before now, I hadn’t been getting enough sleep at night, and many times during the daytime, I would find myself dozing off, only to be awakened by calls or knocks from whomever came around. Each time that happened, my mind would feel so bad, and at that moment, I would plan to go to bed early that night. But when night eventually came, it was still the same pattern of staying awake, pressing my phone, and trying to finish all my tasks.
That was how I spent my nights—staying awake and making sure to complete all my tasks before going to sleep. You’re wondering what the tasks are? Most of them involve blogging in this Blockchain space and attending to my offline work. Most times at night, I wouldn’t sleep at all because whenever there was public electricity, I would make use of it to the fullest, knowing we don’t often get power. This took up my sleeping time a lot, and whenever that happened at night, I still wouldn't find time to sleep during the daytime of the following day.
But now, things have changed. Since the beginning of the year, I have decided to give sleep a good approach, and one step I have been following is sleeping very early at night. I noticed that if I could handle this, I wouldn’t have a hard time creating time for sleep. Now, once the time is getting to 9 PM, I’m already in bed watching movies, and that usually serves as a free ticket to invite sleep. By that time, if there’s someone I need to call or message, I do that before going to bed, and any other calls or messages that come in during my sleeping hours are suspended until the following day.
Although this has not started happening every day because I have found myself in some nights staying awake until 10 PM, but on average, I’m already winning in my sleeping hours.
With this, I sleep until 4 AM to 5 AM, then wake up and start striking off all the tasks for the day. By this time, my brain feels so refreshed for writing, reading, and commenting.
Oh! Lest I forget—about the availability of electricity at night. Yes, I still stay awake to attend to work, taking advantage of the electricity, but I do so only to an extent and then go to sleep. I no longer stay up all night like I used to before.
Thanks for reading.
This is my entry to scifi prompt.