Spotify Screwed Up My Sleep (Again)
When digital convenience meets reality on a seasonal basis.
Sleep has been an elusive beast in my adult years.
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise,” they say.
I suppose I might be living proof of the opposite effect. But whoever wrote a limerick for the night-owls of society? The midnight runners. The society abstainers. The vampiric non-bloodsuckers who instead derive sustenance from darkened rooms lit up by unhealthy relationships with our computer screens.
I like to imagine it would go something like this:
“Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man bitter, Twitter, and despised.” Oh wait, perhaps that’s more apt for our recent reality show president.
How about this?
“Later to bed, later to rise, makes a man unhealthy, unstealthy, and full of fries.”
“Yes, that will work,” I say as I finish the last salty morsel in my McMeal.
Needless to say, the adage is probably true, on both ends of the scale. And it's why I’ve always had a lingering side hobby of researching everything there is to know about sleep.
I never seem to implement it, of course. That would just make too much damn sense.
