I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

Sylvia Plath
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go...
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go...
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go...
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go...
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When you are sick, it’s easy to think the only thing that matters is getting better. You want to get up so you can put one foot in front of the other. But, when you are tired, day after day, it’s tempting to skip on at least one hour’s worth of sleep. Perhaps you won’t go to bed and skip on an hour of sleep, but you might skip on the next hour.

And then the next. And then the next. The problem is that once you skip on an hour of sleep, your body isn’t going to magically get better because you skipped on an hour of sleep.

It will take a lot longer to heal than you think if you are skipping on hours of sleep every night.

Source: The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

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