Live it out

[colouredvinyl]

I think I could probably be diagnosed with Delayed sleep-phase syndrome.  If I were, then I could be legally classified as a person with a disability.  ... Status symbol!  It comes and goes over the years, but I definitely feel like it's happening right in the general now.  Maybe I should try this chronotherapy technique I've considered a few times

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[colouredvinyl]

Hmm, I appreciate a good game of devil's advocate, but I can't agree that is how *all* our bodies want to work. According to the International Classification of Sleep Disorders, there are apparently millions of people who have Delayed sleep-phase syndrome (the figure is reportedly something like 0.15% of adults), and that's just those who have been diagnosed. And sufferers don't have it because something's wrong with them, it's because that's how their bodies naturally are. They just don't fit modern societal norms. There is a multitude of divergent evolutionary pathways that our ancestors took in regards to all our behavioral patterns, including that of sleep. Some of us work well on what now, in our post-industrial world, is really an archaic sleep schedule; some of us don't. But you're right, the longer work hours (and resultant tendency to satisfy our recreational needs well into the night) do often prompt many of us to push ourselves past our normal threshold for wakefulness, and stay up too long. That we acknowledge it as "too long" should force us to accept that it is a symptom of an ill-devised American labor schedule, as far as the requirements of modern human welfare are concerned.

But yeah, in response to your last sentence, I'm not suggesting that only recreation or creativity are the activities we should have available to us as options before work, if we so desire them. Just chilling is one, too. And why shouldn't we be able to chill before work? Being in a rush all the time is just crap.

[cheeze]

you are correct and i agree with you. well said. :) there's also people like me, who, possibly due to an extremely slow metabolism, don't work well with 24 hour days. my body seems to want me to have something more like 28 or 30 hours in a day.

and yeah, being in a rush all the time sucks ass. unfortunately, due to my extreme slowness, i'm pretty much always in a rush regardless.