Humans resist sleep

OBS-286 · Human behavior · rest

Humans willingly spend one-third of their lives unconscious.

This does not concern them.

Suggest a twenty-minute rest in the middle of the afternoon, and suddenly there are principles involved.

They invent coffee to postpone rest, then buy weighted blankets to imitate the comfort they postponed.

I have begun to suspect exhaustion is one of humanity's quietest hobbies.

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