We Don’t Need More Sleep
“No, we don’t need more sleep. It’s our souls that are tired, not our bodies. We need nature. We need magic. We need adventure. We need freedom. We need truth. We need stillness. We don’t need more sleep, we need to wake up and live.”
– Brooke Hampton
I like to think that in order to do more things, some concessions need to be made. We should still sleep, but at times we need to do other things.
There are occasions when sleep is not that good.
Three stories:
I think the latter option is the best. Try to find something good in an argument.
Sometimes, in arguments, I have two opposing tendencies:
I recently found a better option – reply just partially and try to improve on the conversation.
And perhaps not get offended easily? (easier said than done)
I see people deciding where to build a house in Romania. And people constantly choose places far from the sea. I even know of a family who bought a new place, but not by the sea, but around 30 minutes – one-hour drive from the sea.
“Why would you do this?” I keep asking myself.
I’ve lived for most of my life by the sea, at a 20/30-minute walk from the sea (10 minutes by car).
The air is fresh, you can choose to find a place not far away from a city, you can get an urban lifestyle and a closeness to nature.
There are only a few downsides to living by the sea, but I consider living by the seaside as an (almost) free ticket to being happy.
I like going to theater plays.
Some reasons for this:
There is a video by Tom Peters on this topic:
Brand You: You Are Your Calendar – YouTube.
It makes me think – it’s important to have principles and values to form strategy and use tactics.
But if you don’t act on what is on your mind, your life doesn’t reflect your values.
„Ar trebui să încercăm să trăim în așa fel încât, dacă s-ar pierde Evanghelia, numai privindu-ne cineva, ea să poată fi scrisă din nou” – Mitropolitul Antonie al Surojului
(on this: Dacă s-ar pierde Evanghelia – Blog de Olivian Breda)
Sometimes, I see beggars in trains.
Some travel on the floor, claiming they don’t have legs (most of them do).
Some leave some things to buy or take as a donation from them and return afterward to ask for money.
Some claim to be mute.
When you tell them not to leave objects near you, as you don’t want them, some of them become aggressive, although their place in the train is unclear.
I don’t remember giving anything to them anytime.
I think helping them is hurting society, as this encourages them.
You don’t know their history if you see a beggar on the street.
You aren’t sure that if you help them with money, they’ll use this money in a very unethical way.
If someone asks for money on a social network, you don’t know, again, their history.
The solution in that case? Go to an NGO, tell them your story, make them spread your story, and vouch for you.
If such an NGO doesn’t exist (but I think it does), it needs to be invented.
If you do a thing over and over again, you will tend to become good with it.
Repeating the same sermon each Sunday and doing a similar praying ritual over and over again will make you better.
If you see a movie or read a book once, you’ll discover many things. Doing it again and again after some years pass will make you an expert in it.
It’s like taking a PhD.
In conclusion, I think it’s a good thing that some things tend to repeat.
Într-un clip vechi de tot se zice:
Să nu uităm că drogurile astea sunt foarte periculoase. Unii oameni mor, sau mai rău: ajung la spital.
E de departe cea mai mare teamă a mea, interacțiunea cu orice formă de spital. Preventiv, fac tot felul de analize, merg la dentist, mă vaccinez, încerc să trăiesc sănătos, fac ce pot preventiv. Dar teama rămâne.
A doua ar fi câinii (care, dacă te mușcă, pot să te aducă la spital).
A treia ar fi când cineva se comportă agresiv, verbal sau nu numai, față de mine.
Paradoxal, nu îmi e teamă de viitor atât de mult. Războaie, cutremure, evenimente majore – acestea mă îngrijorează, dar nu sperie.
Nu am fobie, dar e o formă de stres și partea legată de interacțiuni umane, vorbit în public, alte asemenea.
Mai e și frica de înălțimi.
“I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” ― Mark Twain
There is a scene in a movie (I think it was a documentary) with an old person making fake IDs for Jews during the Second World War.
The person said they were working for very long periods of time, hardly ever sleeping, always thinking that they could save another life with their work.
And there’s this scene from Schindler’s List: I could have saved one more (ending scene).
Dr. Alexandru Pesamosca and Dr. Niculina Bratu hardly had any life outside of helping others.
In life, you do things – work, have fun, relax, concentrate, get more results, do more things.
It’s important to see how much you can have an impact on others.
And having just one more little impact.