Sleep

College students don’t get much sleep. It’s a “no duh Sherlock” statement, but we (or more so I) need to be reminded of it. In about 6 hours and 4 minutes I will be waking up to get ready for my last and final exam of the semester (Foundations of Youth Ministry). I “went to bed” a little less than an hour ago. What the heck?! I can’t fall asleep. It appears that my body has now been wired to fall asleep around the precise time of 1:30ish-2 o’clock. Good grief.

I am trying to recall an interesting “fact.” At the beginning of this semester, I remember being told that during my college life one of three things would get sacrificed: schoolwork, friendships, or sleep. Well, I got to do schoolwork (I would prefer not to fail), and friends are a must (I think staying up late and laughing till my stomach hurts by myself would get old rather quickly). So alas, bye-bye sleep!

Next semester I will adapt to a better sleeping schedule…yeah right!

I know a few students who punctually go to bed around the ripe time of eleven o’clock. ELEVEN O’CLOCK! Gosh, imagine. That sounds delightful…but it also sounds rather dull. It isn’t till after eleven when all the fun starts!

One thing is for certain: sleep is precious. It is ironic that sleep is one of the few things our bodies need the most, yet it is one of the few things that we deprive our bodies of the most. Darn irony!

I could say that I’ll sleep when I’m dead. But am I crazy?! I won’t be sleeping! I am going to be laughing to three o’clock in the morning with Jesus every night (if there is such a concept of time in heaven…I couldn’t say).

So I come back to the same conclusion. College students don’t get much sleep.

This is what I would like to do... (sleep!)

...Oh well...