Today is Friday, and aside from a brief snooze in the late afternoon a couple of days ago, I haven’t taken a really good nap this week. I always feel extremely well rested and, oddly enough, sleep better later that night. I also have very vivid and colorful dreams during the day. I read somewhere that that is because of the natural daylight during REM sleep. I don’t know. All I know is that I like to nap, and my cat naps with me. She always senses what is going on and hops up on the bed, curls up in the crook of my armpit, and is soon purring away. We bond that way. A little QT with Miss Kitty. So I’ll plan on a nap this afternoon, around 3PM or so.
I have to put this kind of self-healing into context with the rest of the crazy world going on outside. War, political upheaval, death, disease, all that stuff, can weigh pretty heavy on my little noodle. I have a natural drive to run around and try to get as many things done today as possible. Call it a Protestant work ethic, overcompensation, manic behavior, or being a busy-body, but I have come to the realization that there is nothing so pressing in my life that can’t wait until tomorrow. I’m not being lazy. If I plan 7 things to do today, and by some miracle, I complete all 7 tasks, I will be run down and exhausted. This is not healthy. If I am able to concentrate on 3 of those 7 tasks, and complete them to the best of my ability, with care and understanding, I will be a much happier person. In this gogogo world we must all learn how to stop, take a look around. Take the speakers out of your ears, stop running to “the store”, turn off your TV, and sit down. There is no competition. There is no race. Quit the life of a lemming. Live as a Human Being, not as a Human Doing. Relax. Recharge. Renew. You don’t have to always be on the go. There is no such thing as “doing nothing”. So do something else. Me? You know what I have planned. See you in Dreamland.
Johnnyboy