For regular followers of this blog, you will know that #2 plays cricket. His season concludes this coming Saturday, which means that not only will Saturday mornings be reclaimed, but Tuesday and Thursday afternoons will be as well. WOO HOO!!!!
Coupled with this long season, I have been more seriously under the pump at work over the last week or so than normal. I'm not complaining about this - I have no problem with hard work, but for the last week or so I have been coming home from work absolutely exhausted! Exhausted, but knowing there is no choice but to get done what needs to get done in the time available.
I have discovered over time that when I can finally see light at the end of a tunnel, whatever it was that has been keeping my energy and motivation up to that point tends to abandon me and I fall into some kind of funk hole. That's the hard part. You know you have to keep going, but lack the energy to do so. Some folk call that "whatever" adrenaline.
I call it sleep. I love my bed. The memory foam mattress has been the best investment I ever made I think. When sleep washes over me, it is a beautiful relief from the world. As for everyone else, that relief is all to brief. I know that the alarm is going to go off at 5.38am, so for some as yet to be identified reason, I have tended to wake at about 4.00am forever, and not really get back to sleep after that.
Lying there in that twilight haze between sleep and awake is a blessing and a curse. A blessing on Sunday mornings when I do not have to get up at a set time (soon to be Saturday's as well. Did I mention WOO HOO?), a curse most weekdays when I really want that extra sleep.
I have found lately that the closer I am getting to 5.38 in the morning, the closer to getting back to sleep I am. This is the best bit. The cares of the world do not exist at that point - the world is in perfect balance. Soon enough the reality of the day will kick in, but just for that now, time is distorted and life is perfect. Soon it will be time for the shower and shaving, but for now - bliss!
Does this waking early phenomenon happen to you too? I would be interested to hear your thoughts on it. Feel free to comment.
Until next time,
CfB
Coupled with this long season, I have been more seriously under the pump at work over the last week or so than normal. I'm not complaining about this - I have no problem with hard work, but for the last week or so I have been coming home from work absolutely exhausted! Exhausted, but knowing there is no choice but to get done what needs to get done in the time available.
I have discovered over time that when I can finally see light at the end of a tunnel, whatever it was that has been keeping my energy and motivation up to that point tends to abandon me and I fall into some kind of funk hole. That's the hard part. You know you have to keep going, but lack the energy to do so. Some folk call that "whatever" adrenaline.
I call it sleep. I love my bed. The memory foam mattress has been the best investment I ever made I think. When sleep washes over me, it is a beautiful relief from the world. As for everyone else, that relief is all to brief. I know that the alarm is going to go off at 5.38am, so for some as yet to be identified reason, I have tended to wake at about 4.00am forever, and not really get back to sleep after that.
Lying there in that twilight haze between sleep and awake is a blessing and a curse. A blessing on Sunday mornings when I do not have to get up at a set time (soon to be Saturday's as well. Did I mention WOO HOO?), a curse most weekdays when I really want that extra sleep.
I have found lately that the closer I am getting to 5.38 in the morning, the closer to getting back to sleep I am. This is the best bit. The cares of the world do not exist at that point - the world is in perfect balance. Soon enough the reality of the day will kick in, but just for that now, time is distorted and life is perfect. Soon it will be time for the shower and shaving, but for now - bliss!
Does this waking early phenomenon happen to you too? I would be interested to hear your thoughts on it. Feel free to comment.
Until next time,
CfB
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