Why is it so very hard to stay asleep as we get older?
Maybe I shouldn’t generalize that it’s older folks who are the ones who only have trouble with insomnia. I’ve heard from pretty much every single age range and generation that the most elusive thing in their lives besides getting their package from Amazon on time IS getting and staying asleep all night and… then, hopefully, waking refreshed. Then ready to start the day with a clarity and a sense of enthusiasm that suggests a miracle has occurred.
Being dramatic is my fall back personality trait and it's kind of expected in my columns. However, in my defense, I haven’t had more than five hours of sleep and I have a mountain of work to do before I get drowsy by 9:30am.
Back to the clock..the red glare coming from the device perched on my bureau just opposite my bed. After turning over and doing enough flips/ flops that would definitely get me into Cirque du Soleil without an interview…I decide to check the numbers that stare back at me. They mock me. They intentionally switch places as I blink from right to left eye hoping for a brief moment of balance to bring myself into focus. What difference does it really make anyway if it's 15 minutes since the last time that I checked or 2 hours? It doesn’t matter. I’m annoyed regardless.
How in the Lord's good name is it only 12 or no minutes since the last time I checked to see what I knew was a cruel joke…Look it’s not the clock's fault. I was the person unable to get 20 minutes in a row of sleep. Who was I kidding? Blaming insomnia on the numbers that stared back at me from this device that shouted out the audible expression…tick tock, tick tock, like a fighter jet had decided to take a shortcut through my bedroom, was not honestly why I wasn’t asleep. Was it?
Ok..then what’s your reason? I’m awake and open to suggestions.
Pat Larsen is a syndicated columnist in Greene, Albany and Northern Ulster Counties. She lives, works and plays with her husband, Chris, and their pup, Lily.
Pat teaches fitness classes to her favorite people, Baby Boomers and Seniors, at The Shamrock House, in East Durham. Feel free to contact Pat at #518-275-8686 any time day or night. She’s awake.
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