RELATIVITY

THANKFUL FRIDAY

This week has been a much better week. Well, not globally of course, what with the current rapistpresident committing war crimes and all. The world is still burning down around us, but personally I’m doing okay. It was definitely one of my more healthier weeks with walks and yoga and moving my body. I’ve started taking half of a 1:20 THC/CBD mint before bed time every night and it has changed my life. I’m sleeping without waking up every other hour. Now I only wake up once or twice during the night! One would think that if I took the whole mint, I’d stay asleep for a full eight hours. I’ve done the experiment and if I didn’t have to get out of bed in the mornings, I’d take the whole mint. I do not have that kind of life.

I’m not sure I really want that kind of life…

So many people have complained this week about the time change and losing an hour. Why are we messing with time?!?! Blah blah blah. Wa wa wa. Ideally the concept of having an imaginary extra hour seems wonderful. Keeping track of time, how we spend it, what we do with it, is a corporate capitalist trap built for you to work more hours and spend more money. Value is not placed in the quality of your work but in the number of hours spent doing work, not just completing a project but completing as many projects as possible in said hours. Just as long as it isn’t too many hours because corporate hates paying overtime. And just like that, I’ve made Daylight Savings Time a heavy, depressing topic.

What I’d like to say is, I don’t benefit from that pretend hour. Setting the clocks back just means I’m awake at 4:00 AM instead of 5:00 and I’d really like to be in my bed at 8:00 PM. Morning dog walks come to an abrupt halt because I wake up at 4:00, look at the clock and go back to sleep. Then the alarm for the dog walk goes off at 5:20 and I just roll over and shut it off. Winter time weather does not help here either. Part of the walks end because the weather is unbearable and Josephine would rather snuggle under the blankets with me. But every morning this week, I’ve woken up a few minutes before the dog walk alarm. Each time, I’ve stretched and nudged the dog who then jumps down from the bed to start her “we’re going on a walk party dance”. This has happened every morning except for Wednesday. Wednesday morning when we woke up, it was pouring buckets and I had half a dozen texts of concern about our wellbeing on my phone. Those mints are so I good, I slept right through the worst of the weather.

If I had to make a list of things that relaxes my brain and puts me at ease, it would be a list of activities where I am unaware of the time. Riding my bicycle. Riding my scooter (I still haven’t fixed the digital clock). Moments when we’ve left the house for a day of errands and I have forgotten my phone. That’s happened a few times recently. The only thing I miss when I don’t have my phone is the ability to take pictures. But these are all activities that remove the concept of time from my consciousness. Look at what happens when I attempt to adhere to regimented time! My sleep gets wonky. My exercise practice goes in the garbage and my stress levels increase. So, while many would vote to put a stop to this whole Daylight Savings Time nonsense, I want to my vote towards an end the regimented concept of time.

I am grateful that this has been a better, healthier week. I am especially grateful for all of the sunshine, even if the air is still a bit chilly.