Brain Broadcast - Tired August 3, 2007
Posted by markdykeman in career, changes, day person, jobs, life, night person.add a comment
Evening hits and my body slows down. This is probably the biggest difference in my life from when I was under 30 years old to today, when I’m a couple of years shy of 40.
I was never a party animal, at least not compared to a number of people that I know, but the night used to have a greater appeal than it does today. I used to have more energy and more of a desire to do things in the evening in previous years. A lot of things have changed.
1) I consistently wake up by 6 AM every stinking day. Five days of the week I get up around this time to start getting ready for work. The remaining two days of the week, my human alarm clocks (six year old boy, five year old girl) will normally make sure that I’m awake by that time.
2) I’ve been in the workforce for over sixteen years. I’ve been a manager for five and a half years. It really, really takes a lot of energy out of you. It’s not the volume of things that you plan to do, it’s the unplanned crap that sucks you dry.
3) With reference to the human alarm clocks in point 1… kids take a lot of time and energy out of you, too. Like, just about all of it…
Please don’t misunderstand. I’m not complaining about these things. At least not in this post. All I’m trying to say is that my life has changed immensely over the years such that I’m a day person and I do my thing during the day. I don’t have much left over at night. And that’s OK. It’s different, but it’s OK.
But I’m not up for clubbing or partying tonight. Or tomorrow night. Or the night after that. Or…
You get the idea. But if that’s your thing, go you! And have a cold one on me.
