Sleepless in Manhattan

So no one sleeps here.  I have talked to countless people that just don't sleep, my roommate being one of them.  Its like there nocturnal state of a wondering mind, of too many thoughts that can't be shut off.  As I say its not like your going to loss those thoughts but rather shut them off so one can sleep.  Your beautiful spirit is like a computer, it needs to reboot.  I on the other hand don't know how to not sleep.  Although I probably stay up later then I should, my mind slowly drifts off and once my eyes shut its lights out for this girl.

I wonder what mind can't be tamed enough to allow this nature progression.  What could be so important that one would neglect such a beautiful state of recovery.  Your mind needs to be protected, needs to be turned off.  Is something so important that you can't deal with it in the morning when you've had time to recover.  It's not like these people are on crack but someone I met the other day said they haven't slept in 3 days.  How unfortunate and even more exhausting, then they start to worry about not sleeping creating even more anxiety about sleeping.  The sleepless cycle continues and so on and so forth.

Sleep is as important as air itself.  It's as important as the water you drink and the food you consume.  Your body creates a sleep debt and keeps tabs on your regeneration.  Why would you take this away?  Why would you assume that this shouldn't be a priority.  Do everything you can in one day and leave the rest to the next.  Do your best everyday, go easier on yourself and breath for the next day is a new one.  It's like all their days are running into one very long one.

People work very hard here, I will give them that.  This is such an ambitious quality very unique to New Yorkers but I don't admire one that works so hard that they neglect themselves.  It reads on their face how exhausted they have become and I wonder if they are truly happy running themselves on an empty tank.  Even when I go into my local watering hole you will see people having a drink and writing notes on the bar napkins.  They are constantly going, thinking, creating.  I love the ambition but do they ever really soulfully enjoy the train they are on.  Could they ever get off it, even if they wanted to?

DO a days work in a days time.
DO allow yourself time to relax.
DO believe that those thoughts won't go away.
DO sleep like a baby every time your head hits the pillow.

Don't be an idiot and think that you are superman and can go without sleep.