GNAGB Vol 811
Andy Rooney had a piece once about how you can analyze people based on most anything. He focused, in that piece, on how people sit. But i think you can look at anything? Take sleep, for example. What are your sleep habits? I believe that most people today don't sleep enough.Are you consistent in your sleep habits?
What people that are very consistent generally don't get about less consistent people is that inconsistent people are not consistently inconsistent, that's kind of the essential point. Certain personality types will say things to other personality types like, "How are you on time, you are always late?" No. You may "always" be on time, but that does not mean that I am always late. I'm sometimes way early.
People that are "always" early are not "always" so. I find that here's a lack of self awareness in certain personality types. Like most things in life, personality is a package deal.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 9:07 PM
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'...will say things...like, "How are you on time, you are always late?"'
Sometimes people aren't happy when we don't live 'down' to their expectations, let alone up to them.
As to sleep habits - I gave this a shot -
consistently late
chronically sleep deprived
structure is needed
but another page beckons
such books are the stuff of dreams
Nothing to do with your topic, but here's a haiku that occurred to me:
The thing you don't have
Is always the thing needed
To make life worthwhile
Well said Esqcapades - we don't live down to expctations. I like that. It relates to jealousy and competition and other things I think about in this thing I'm in called life.
I really like your sleep tanka.
Kishke, thanks for sharing the haiku. It's a little too black and white for my taste but I like that you write haiku and share them here.
You've got a point. It didn't come out the way I was thinking. Maybe I'll work on it some more.
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OK, hatzlacha with that - looking forwad.
I do not get enough sleep, as I seem to "come alive" around 9 pm after feeling fatigued earlier. I must force myself to bed, and sometimes it's midnight, even later. Six point five hours of sleep is nowhere near enough for me.
But a funny thing happened when I had two weeks off over the holidays. I slept very late (for me), yet I just felt more and more tired! When I returned to my regular weekday work schedule this week, I had a lot more energy despite less sleep.
hmmmmmm
Anne, thanks for answering my slep related query.
Sleep confuses me, it coul just be now because I am with cold, but I am also experiencing the reality that more sleep is not making me less tired.
In general I feel I don't get enough sleep, more would be better. I am also a night person...
Thanks again for reflecting and sharing.
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