Be Careful What You Wish For
We’ve all heard this phrase before, but how many people really pay attention to it?
When I was a young guy, probably when I was about 14 years old - I was walking with my best friend Eric. For some reasons we started talking about vision and I mentioned that mine was perfect, but that I wanted to see what it was like to NOT have perfect vision.
“Your wish is my command Jeremy!” said the genie, secretly laughing behind my back.
Well, about a month later I started to notice that I was in fact starting to get bad vision. Now I have terrible eyes, HATE contacts, and can’t wait to get Lasik eye surgery when I graduate in May.
Now fast forward to last week.
I have always been the person who NEEDS 8 hours of sleep or won’t be able to function. However, I know some people that are absolutely fine with 4-6 hours of sleep.
So, of course, I had to make another wish.
I wished that it wasn’t necessary to sleep - that I could become one of those people.
Well, low and behold, the genie granted my wish once again.
It’s 1:12 right now as I’m typing this. Usually, I would have been sleeping for 1.5 hours by now, but since I made that wish, I’ve had insomnia and have been getting about 5-6 hours of sleep per night.
Although I have a little more time now to get some things done, which is why I wanted to have to sleep less in the first place, I realize that my body is hating this.
I’ve have less strength, can’t think as quickly, I’m more sore, and I’m less motivated to do things. I’m also slipping up on my healthy eating more than usual.
When I wished I didn’t have to sleep, I didn’t mean it literally. I meant that I wish our bodies didn’t need 8 hours of sleep because it would make it easier to get more work done.
Bah!
One good thing that’s coming out of this is that I can relate to my girlfriend much better now, who can’t sleep very well either. Since I was always a “I close my eyes and I’m sleeping within 15 seconds” person, I could never understand why she hated trying to go to bed.
I understand now hun!
Now that I know what it’s like to be an insomniac (although I’d still consider myself a mild insomniac), I’d really like for the genie to take my wish back 
If anybody suffers from insomnia and knows some good remedies for it, please let me know.
My body is begging me to sleep, but at the same time it won’t allow itself to do just that.
I’m going to try and get back into bed now. Wish me luck!
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