Still Alive but Ungrateful

It takes five minutes to brush your teeth, longer than that to complete your rituals in the toilet and bathroom.  Eating three meals and sipping several cups of coffee will take more than an hour.  Going online to check your emails, Facebook news feed, Twitter feed, or visit websites for work or leisure will consume an hour or more.  Commuting will eat a significant chunk of your time and work itself will eat a third or more of your day.  Take away an hour or two for socializing after work, and you’ll be crawling to bed at the end of another normal day.

Sleep consumes a third of your day, less if you’re insomniac, more if you’re hypersomniac.  As your eyes blink open to signal another waking day, you jump out of bed and repeat your routine, forgetting to ask why you have awakened when so many die in their sleep, forgetting to say the shortest but sincerest thank you prayer that will be quicker than reading this blog post.

-Prospero Pulma, Jr.