Staying Up Late

I have been reading one of Daddy's books lately, Microtrends: the small forces behind tomorrow's big changes. It's a book full of statistics and overviews that are called things like "Sun-Haters", "Young Knitters", and "Surgery Lovers". It my kind of book. All I had to do was read the title to get interested.

I was reading a part titled "30-Winkers". It's about people who get only 6 hours of sleep or less. I was reading that, Thanks to twenty-four-hour-a-day electronics and expectations, we're awake more than any Americans in recored history.

I really think this was the most interesting paragraph:
You've envied people who say they hardly sleep. If nothing else, in the race for more of everything, they have attained more time. An extra ninety minutes per day adds up- that's 10 percent more awake time per day- or an extra 8.2 years for someone who could expect to live to, say, 82. Through less sleep you could have the life experience of someone aged 91. Now that's tempting.

I read this article and looked at the statistics and found myself agreeing with the author. America needs to put down the remote and the laptop and go get 8 hours of sleep! Our health and happiness depends on it!

Putting down the book and yawning, I checked the clock on the stove. It said 12:49 a.m. I wonder if the author was writing this part and laughed because, when he looked up at his clock, it was after midnight, too.


P.S. Check the post time. It's not pretty.