Foolish Games

Circle of Life

People have noted before how the human lifecycle has a certain symmetry. For example: you grow as a child, peak for a while, then start shrinking in old age; you start without teeth and progress to solid foods, and in old age lose your teeth and revert to less solid foods; you start off hair impaired, grow hairier, and then start losing it all again; you start off life being very dependent on others, becoming less so over the years, until again, you need people to look after you all the time... and so the list could go on I'm sure.

Why am I going on about this? No, it's not because I'm having a mid-life crisis due to my age (I know I'm starting to frequently point out that I'm old, but that's just in jest - quite frankly, I see being old as being closer to God, in that there's less time on this earth). No, rather, I'm discovering how much more important sleep is to me. So it goes something like this: as a baby you spend hours and hours happily asleep, spending more time awake as you grow up until you're a teenager and uni student, when you easily spend all night playing games or cramming for exams (I was very much of the latter persuasion, procrastinating for just about any decent sized assignment as well as exams). And then? Well, I've been feeling it for a few years now, but staying up late just isn't as easy as it used to be, and a good night's sleep is just appreciated so much more. In due course I'm sure I'll be regularly sleeping before midnight again, and not out of discipline, but necessity (yes, I'm currently a bit of night owl, feeling that sleeping before midnight is a waste of usable time).

I'm probably bringing this up now because I stayed up longer than I should have watching the cricket and consequently the subsequent day has felt a little less bearable. I guess it doesn't help that I may be developing a cold (bit of a sore throat) >.< On the topic of cricket, it's been a strange Ashes series - for one, I've actually been supporting Australia (I know, I'm supposedly a dual NZ/Aust. citizen, but supporting Australian sporting teams is normally something I don't do).

posted by Son @ 16:30