Friday I slept for an hour, Saturday for five, and Sunday for four. No bueno... Last night I finally was able to get seven plus, but I woke up feeling tired, probably because I'm not used to it... Arghh!
Exhaustion, fatigue and lack of physical energy are common sleep deprivation symptoms. Exhaustion and fatigue affect our emotional moods, causing pessimism, sadness, stress and anger. The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) has suggested that social problems such as road rage may be caused, in part, by a national epidemic of sleepiness.
The brain's frontal cortex relies on sleep to function effectively. Insufficient rest adversely affects the frontal cortex's ability to control speech, access memory, and solve problems. The effect on physical energy is also startling: otherwise healthy people quickly show symptoms of age and early diabetes as glucose metabolism falls by up to forty percent. These physical reactions disappear when the test subject is allowed to rest properly. Driving and other activities can become dangerous without sufficient rest.
http://www.sleep-deprivation.com/
It really is time to slow things down, I don't care if the culture around me acts differently. I will be 26 tomorrow and yeah, yeah, everyone tells me I'm so young still, and I admit, I am, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm not eighteen anymore. I don't want diabetes, and Lord knows I don't need to have anymore problems with my "ability to control speech, access memory, and solve problems."
Separate from the sleep deprivation issue (though of course not completely, nothing happens independent of anything else... think about it), I am moving back to Oceanside (not in an attempt to change lifestyle, there are other things I need to change in order to get more sleep, i.e. working so much, taking too many classes at school, etc.). Actually I'm halfway there already, Tim and I had to leave our house in Valley Center so I am staying with a family in this country town called Bonsall.
Hmm... like a falling leaf I am. I want to say that it is something I am not proud of, but it really doesn't bother me. Only when I feel pressured by those around me to be something that I am not do I have a problem with my life. Makes me ask, what's the purpose of life in the first place? Is it not to know Christ and Him crucified, to proclaim that truth to the nations? Is it not to live in the abundant, overflowing love God has for us, and to share that love with all? Everything else is details, "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:19-21
I have learned a lot of lessons in the last few months moving to Valley Center and being part of the church family there, but I feel that season is over with and Oceanside is a better place to be right now. I am ready to settle down for a while I think, kinda over moving so much, but I can't say what will take place. I felt that going to Valley Center was going to be temporary, and it has turned out to be so. I feel as if Oceanside could be for a little while, but I must hand it over to time and of course God, and who knows what the future holds. Who cares really, cuz life is so temporary and eternity is so long... glory hallelujah.
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit" - yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. - James 4:13-17
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