As soon as any official holiday begins, our days are devoted to sleeping and our nights to normal daytime activities. The world becomes chaotic and it doesn’t seem to matter if the holiday is long or short since things never vary. At best we are a disorganized, slightly chaotic society and we seem to value our chaotic ways and expect everybody to fall in with the way that we do things.
I have asked myself many times why this always happens at every holiday and during every vacation? Our teenagers and young people seem not to enjoy the change in routine unless they see the sunrise and are able to brag that they never slept, the whole night. Their days become nights and their nights are used to burn up the energy gained from daytime sleeping.
Nature’s normal routine is disturbed and along with it, our normal biological clocks. We are like zombies in the daytime if we have to do anything and think only of returning home to sleep. Recent studies indicate that we are the worst group in the world for staying up late and that we are therefore less productive than most other people in the world.
Perhaps a question that each individual must ask himself or herself is what he or she has accomplished during the day?
We possess all that is needed for us to become a productive nation, but are we doing all we can to make use of our skills and blessings?
What I’m saying is that in the chaos of staying up late, our progress is hindered and we fail to reach specific and well-defined goals. Families should start planning ahead before the beginning of any vacation. Children and teenagers must learn how to appreciate and use their time.
