Eyes wide open.

Wow! Awake Again! The outside sky is still very wrapped in darkness. The whole world seem to be asleep. At least the darkened part of it is. There was no noise for once, no generated noise, no environmental disturbance. This is quiet, as quiet as a city can be. I lay rested, recline, tuning in to the frequencies of the neighbourhood. Trying to identify what is amiss. A burglar? A neighbour’s Dog barking? A cat prowling the Dirt-bin or the Old Mallam making his lazy, infrequent night Round? Nothing! I wondered what woke me up and as I was about to hop off the bed, it hit me. Not a gun shot, this is not a weapon. The simple realisation was, 4.23.58 AM! I was asleep up till that time. It is a very rare occurrence because no matter how late or in what intoxicated state I turn in for a ride on the Sleep-Plane, I always seem to get off around 2am maybe 3. But not this Saturday morning. I’m not suffering from insomnia and my doctor could prove that, but crisis seem to have taken over my sleep pattern. My body might be weak, ready to drop off, but my brain would be over-charged. Too excited to sleep and very lazy to work. I do not have an assignment deadline lurking around the corner or a family decision looming over my head since I’m a single guy, an undergraduate but this seem to be somewhat related to Midlife Crisis than any other thing I could tag as being the reason behind my short night rest.

According to my online research, individuals experiencing a midlife crisis have some of these feelings:

-search of an undefined dream or goal
-a deep sense of remorse for goals not accomplished
-a fear of humiliation amongst more successful colleagues
-desire to achieve a feeling of youthfulness
-need to spend more time alone or with certain peers. (Courtesy Wikipedia)

My time got stolen by anxiety in a way I didn’t really realize because I’ve surrounded myself with things that won’t stop at no time, for no one. Rather than feel like an insomniac, I would rather be on facebook but mostly twitter. Seeing friends, normal guys like me tweeting on, without a break. They claim they aren’t suffering from any sleep disorder or midlife crisis, but survey would reveal, Social networks get more populated after dark more than any other time frame. Sometimes I would be tweeting up until the local Imam’s call to prayer by then it would be too late to sleep. We pressure ourselves to keep the tweet numbers high, a 5000 tweet guy would be chasing a 10000 tweep, someone at 28000 aiming for the lofty and seemingly attainable number of 50000. To what purpose I do not know, but I really implore you to look at it as a crisis even if you do not agree with me about my audacious label of Midlife crises since that supposedly affects adult between the ages of 40-60. But if that aint it, then what is? 05:01:45 AM and I’m all set.

Let Sleep Slip, I have all eternity of Rest coming up quick – gidiON

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