Crazy sleep cycle?

As you grow up from your elementary years to your middle school, then high school, then college, it always seems the amount of sleep we get daily decreases. It seems that the more homework you get the faster time goes and less amount of time we have to do it. When this occurs we slip into routine of staying up until 1 in the morning writing that paper that you procrastinated until the last minute and getting up at 5 or 6 in the morning to get ready for another day of school. Then while we have school to worry about, we are trying to juggle that with maintaining a job so that we can start figuring out how to make it in the “real world”. As our sleep cycle varies more and more as we get older, it becomes crutial that we try and make it better again.

                The reason you want a solid sleep cycle is because for one, you are constantly “recharging” your brain and allowing it to distress from the previous day. In order to function properly we need to give our brain a couple hours of rest a night. However, when we get older, we don’t plan ahead and think about all the things we could be doing to stay ahead so that we are able to say on the correct sleep cycle.

                Some things that can help regulate your sleep cycle is once again, not procrastinating your projects and waiting until the very last minute to do them because when you do that, you just add more stress onto yourself which is never good. Another thing you could do is limit yourself on what you can and can’t do. For example, if you know you want to do something like an extra sport or class but you know it’s going to pile on and make it hard for you to get everything done, then maybe you should rethink that decision because you still want to have time to relax and just be a teenager.

                When you don’t sleep, it can negatively impact yourself, which I believe I already talked about in a previous post but I will touch on them again. One is you can affect your learning habits make it so you have a hard time remembering stuff because your brain doesn’t have enough time to rest itself. Another is it can cause more health related issues such as depression which can be caused by all the stress you have to go through to get everything done on time.

                I think it’s very important to try new things and experience what it is like to be out in the “real world” as my parents like to call it. I also think it’s very important to also leave enough time to just have time to yourself or time with your friends and family. Finding that happy middle is a very difficult thing to do but I know that if we really work on not procrastinating and doing things well the first time we can all have enough time grow as a person and make new discoveries as well as having enough time to spend with yourself.