The Fine Art of Napping:

As a believer in the fine art of napping, it hurt to learn that the modern world killed off the nap and that some people still believe in this endangered pleasure. To wit…

We are a culture that celebrates action, doing, achieving, an attitude that leads to a disdain for sleep in general. We stay up late and get up early. We pull all-nighters. We’ll sleep when we’re dead, and in the meantime there’s always a Starbucks on the corner.

It’s a misguided attitude. A good nap is one of life’s great pleasures, and the ability to nap is the sign of a well-balanced life. When we nap we snatch back control of our day from a mechanized, clock-driven society. We set aside the urgency imposed on us by the external world and get in touch with an internal rhythm that is millions of years old.

Amen brother. (via AL Daily)

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