No, I'm not talking about the sort of energy reserves you might dig out of the ground, I'm talking about the ones you have to dig out of yourself when you have an endless number of things that need to get done, you've already worked more than a full day and all you really want to do is lay down and sleep.
One of the ways I recognize that I am definitely aging — although I am by no means ”old” — is that I find it more difficult to keep going when I start getting really tired. And when I then choose to do the mind over matter thing and keep going anyway, then the recovery time afterwards (to get back to feeling normal) is a lot longer than it used to be.
Whereas I realize this is perfectly natural and potentially something that everybody experiences, I still find it a bit frustrating sometimes.
Like, at the moment finding enough energy while Mrs. Denmarkguy and I are preparing for a couple of holiday arts and craft shows while also having all the normal trimmings of ongoing life that's associated with the holidays to tend to.
I guess the only reason I bring it up and think about it a bit is the fact that I don't really like feeling tired.
Of course I've been offered the obligatory ”you should exercise more” along with an occasional ”maybe if you had a better diet” pieces of advice, and all I really have to say in response to that is that I don't actually have the time to add an additional thing that consumes time — even if it is to my benefit — to a schedule that already suffers from a lack of having enough time!
Meanwhile, I spent a lot of time today rounding up all our garbage, making sure the bags in the four bins we keep in the garage were all intact, and then throwing all of it in the back of the truck to take to the local dump.
Whereas we do ”have” garbage pickup, we choose not to have garbage pickup because it is incredibly expensive around here. Why should we have to pay $120.00 every 60 days if I can take our own every 90 days and pay about $35?
Im just glad we live outside the city limits... in town garbage service is mandatory, regardless of whether you use it, or not.
Of course that is one of the fundamentals of modern life: people have gotten so busy that they are willing to pay extra for convenience items and services, as a result of which they have to be even busier, working even longer hours, so they can pay for the convenience services and products.
I watched this happening with our own kids in Seattle who are eternally getting stuff delivered and get 2/3 of their meals via Uber Eats and I tried to explain to them that it's an endless cycle in which they save time to pay for services so they have to work more to pay for the services to save time and it all ends up being about equal. It really hit home with our daughter when I showed her how they were spending well over $1000 a month more on food than they would if they just got food and prepared it at home.
She and our son-in-law — who are in their early 30s — are starting to change their ways because the cost of getting all the conveniences and maintaining the mortgage and maintenance on their home they're starting to catch up with them.
Of course they're much younger than we are so they still have some energy reserves they can draw on, I would just like to reach a point at which I don't have to feel guilty about actually laying down and sleeping a full 8 hour night sleep!
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