Just a quick note. I was thinking the other day about alarm clocks. When were they first invented? It had to be in the last 100 years or so. Do you realize we are the first people to actually wake ourselves up on a regular basis, no matter if we have gotten enough rest or not? How messed up is that?
I get a chance to watch TV once or twice a week and I am amazed at how many ads there are for sleep medication. Maybe the reason we are all so tired, stressed out and struggling to rest is because our bodies are in revolt. Can you imagine how silly we would look to people who lived 200 years ago? We set an alarm clock to wake us up so we can go to a job where we do not normally produce anything. We rush from there to a place to eat food that a stranger prepares. We go from work to the gym to run in place since we did not do anything physical at our jobs and then we rush home to take our kids to activities where we hope to meet neighbors who live right next to us, but we have never spoken to. Weird.
If I am ever elected KING we are going to have a national ban on alarm clocks. We are going to take the first month to rest and then we are going to use all the conveniences of life to actually give us more time for each other. That and we are going to have a global ban on anything less than 3-ply toilet paper.
1 comment:
I agree! I read somewhere that in Biblical times people would rise with the sun and sleep when it went down. Can you imagine waking at 6:00am and going to bed at 5:00pm? I always hit the snooze anyway (maybe more than once!)
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