Doing Away With Naps

Here's something that's no secret to anyone who knows me: I love sleeping. I love having a good night's sleep, I love sleeping soundly and well, I love refreshing naps. I wasn't a big napper until freshman year of college. But very quickly I succumbed to the stress and anxiety and pressure and all of the new and different and took to napping as much as I could fit in my schedule.

And as a sophomore, I napped all the time. But now I'm trying something brave and something new. I'm doing away with naps. While they were some of my most relaxing and recharging endeavors, I'm finding the more irregular my sleep patterns, the more tired I am.

I've also realized that napping was my way of dealing with pressure and stress. Instead of dealing with it head on, I ignored it and avoided it, allowing it to accumulate and overpower me. It was a vicious cycle.

So I'm attempting to do without naps. For one, napping during the day just makes it hard for me to sleep at night, since I spent a good 1-2 hours of my day already asleep. Plus, being awake during the day and pushing through a little fatigue here and there makes me a lot more productive. And feeling productive and busy is something I value even more than sleep.

This isn't to say that when I'm up until 3 am doing god knows what homework I won't allow myself to crash the next day in my free time, because I'm all for that. I'm just trying to make myself a better and less lazy person...for the time being.