Earnestly coveted sleep
As we have reached the end, I now need to wrap up my stuff to make my A to Z look like an organized pile. I was thinking about what to write for this letter. Since my theme was self-love and I have now focused on one segment of self-love, i.e., self-care, I think this topic needs to be attended to here. I have been talking so much about what is important and then prioritizing myself; these all draw to one point, and that is sleep. I had been a very good sleeper in my early years. Ask me to sleep in class, ask me to sleep in the night, ask me to sleep in the day—all times it was possible for me without regret. Climbing the ladder of advancing years, I found that my sleep was getting lesser and lesser. Yes, hormonal changes are the reason, but the need for sleep remains there. So, I thought to include this in my journey. I read two books in this context. One is "Why can't we sleep?" Darian's narration reminded me of a famous concept from health psychology: either you...