Taking a break from Compare/Contrast paper

note to self: began writing post at 10:19

I have a love-hate relationship with wasting time. It's great to not have to do that compare/contrast English paper that's due tomorrow but when eleven o'clock rolls around you know you've killed your chance of a good eight hours of sleep.

Ugh. Sleep. I have a love-hate relationship with sleep. Sure your body needs to replenish its supply of ATP but think of those eight (no six) hours you could have been using for something else. Eating? Studying? Anything? Sigh. Can't live with it, can't live without it.

Or can we?

Think about it. Precious hours of your life slipping away. Why? So your body can be inactive. Why must your body be inactive? So you can be active the next day! And being active the next day causes the need for sleep! It's a vicious cycle. Think of how many days, months even, were ravaged by sleep.

note to self: 10:28 when i researched on sleep

According to helpguide.org, infants need at least sixteen hours of sleep while toddlers and young children need at least ten hours. Teenagers need about nine hours and adults can go for five. Now, that's the bare minimum. How many hours would that be if you lived to be, say, seventy-five? When I whipped out my calculator, I found that "minimum" means 2,880 hours of sleep as an infant, 9,100 hours as a toddler, 21,900 hours as a young child, 9,855 as a pre-teen, 22,995 as a teenager, and 102,200 as an adult. That's a grand total of 168,930 hours your life lost to sleep.  Once again, that's bare minimum. Perhaps 168,930 is too strange of a number to deal with. To simplify, that means 7,038.75 days or about 19.28 years. 19.28 years.

note to self: 10:43 when i finished calculations

Almost Twenty Years. A child grows to be an adult in twenty years. Some countries have an average life-span of twenty years. The timeline of World War I and II put together is twenty years.  The size of the hole in the ozone layer increases by 80% in twenty years. The North Pole could be melted away in twenty years. Twenty years, gone. Totally turned off for a third of your life. Numbingly passive. Oblivious and unaware. Life. Gone. Wasted time.

Ugh. Wasting time. I have a love-hate relationship with wasting time.

note to self: 11:06 when the post was finished

grand total: 47 minutes i could have used studying for AP Euro

wasted time