I've realised that over the last couple of weeks, after over four years of sleep deprivation, I am finally getting just about enough sleep. I have been deprived of sleep primarily by two small sleep suckers, affectionately know as Piggle and Mini-Piggle. I know that there is a direct correlation between how much sleep I get and how much energy and patience I have. Fortunately my husband and I can recognise the sleep deprivation influencing each other now and make allowences.
The other day I began to wonder what the world would be like if everyone had enough sleep. I wondered if people would be better parents - more the sort of parents they would like to be. If people would be healthier and less prone to illness because their immune system weren't weakened and they wouldn't feel the need to resort to unhealthy food to give them a sugar fix to get them through the day. I wondered if there would be less misunderstandings and conflict. Given the ability for messages to be sent and received instantly nowadays it is all to easy for a inital, uncontrolled response, made worse by tiredness to be sent, increasing the potential for a situation to be made worse. 'Sleep on it' is almost always sound advice. If everyone got enough sleep would there be less wars?
I am hoping that getting enough sleep means I have more energy and will ultimately be more productive. High on the endless list of tasks is attempting to win the war on four plus years of clutter in our home. I have a feeling though that Piggle and Mini-Piggle maybe already changing tactics from sleep suckers to day time clutterers.
