Good Night.

So... yeah. I turned in my assignment 40 minutes late. Amazing how much other things can steal time away from you. But I'm not here to beg for my assignment to be accepted. I get what I deserve and if there's a penalty, then I'm glad for it. If it's not accepted, fine. I'll learn my lesson once again.

Eh, I'll give it several days before I slip into my procrastination addiction. It was a little bit of that this time, but mostly it was staying busy. Back to the laziness, we've all been there. That feeling you get when you try to pick yourself out of bed. Yeah, it comes back during the middle of the day. Maybe I'm just a "Night Owl", as my ComS professor put it. I don't think so. I know dozens of college and high school students who stay up way after midnight. So in a sense, I'm the early sleeper.

It could be the nature of a college student to stay up late, finishing homework. Of course college students don't have to wake up at 6:30 am to get to high school on time any more. So it makes sense that we stay up late and sleep in late. That's the nice thing about college, waking up heck of a lot later than the high school days. Would be nicer if all college online courses had their assignment times moved to midnight. To bad there is one exception... Oh well, I'll just have to deal with it some how. Adapt to do my homework two hours earlier.

Anyways, addictions suck. Especially if one of them is procrastination or laziness. That's probably The sin of sloth. But I've seen worse. I remember a friend who hardly ever slept. He wasn't an insomniac but he was on the verge of being officially declared. I just saw the lack of sleep eat away at him the way cigarettes consume a smoker's mind, body, and soul... That was pretty good wasn't it? Man, writing is so much fun sometimes.
Back to my friend, he ended up sleeping for a 2 whole days to make up for his days of restlessness. He came back as if he had returned from a spa. His face looked a year younger and he was smiling so much more. He was so much more calmer too. I asked my friend if he was on anything but he just laughed.
"Nah man, I just knocked out for an hour or two."

More like a day or two...

Other addictions like alcohol or the feeling of excitement and adventure really can ruin someone's life, much like Jeanette's parent's from The Glass Castle. Rex and Rose Walls were hardcore addicts. Jeanette's father to alcohol, and her mother to enjoyment. Rex's addiction could have been helped and cured but I have a feeling that he didn't want to be helped. As strange as it sounds, he probably liked being drunk. It must have softened the tough times. Maybe Rex Walls was a shy as I am, maybe even worse. Maybe it was only when he was drunk that he stood up for himself and didn't care a rat's arse what   anyone thought of him. It makes sense. But I guess it'll only remain a hypothesis, an idea frozen in the vastness of the cyber universe.

Some can relate to Rex Walls, but many more can relate to Rose Walls. Jeanette's mother mostly wanted more time for herself. She wanted to enjoy her life while she still could. Live life to it's happiest and fullest. But she sits on one extreme end. The other extreme end is all work and no play. That is a lot more common, but still, it deteriorates a person's inner life. Still, the majority sits in between these two polar opposites. Still don't see it?

Think about all of the technology children have now. Middle school kids seem to be plugged up to some video game or 4G-PS-I-Z-Delta phone or whatever. Everyone is addicted to comfort and enjoyment. That's why many people pay for new games and new apps, new cars and movies, for drugs even. Man, I'll read this again if our planet experiences the biggest solar flare in history. That'll kill every electronic device on the planet. What's worse is that it would obviously happen in the future, probably everyone would be more electronic dependent by then. I can't imagine that. It sounds worse than a scary movie.

Well, that was fun. I think... I'm going to go sleep talk. Good night!
-Ares