Ge nostriches, I think I’m living in a combination of world created by Lionel Shriver. During a training workshop yesterday, when people around the table were saying what they did in their spare time, it was mostly sitting under a blanket binging a show or fucking sleeping!!!!!

In #mandible, people in the future who are so tired of life work until they have enough money to pay to be sedated so they have live in virtual reality. I think they were called “Dreamers”, these are people trying to escape their monotony of existence, and these colleagues were saying the same. I love to sleep, I focus on getting better sleep, not for its own sake, but I feel better and healthier, to do other things. Sleep is a means to an end. A means to a better, healthier life.

More worrying is from the book I’m reading now “we need to talk about Kevin”, crazy, dark but massively engaging, people just want to watch stuff, whether the news, box sets, series, anything to escape their lives while they aren’t asleep (these are the people I work with). Even when awake they want to watch something, and it’s not just box sets, it’s the continual scrolling as they walk around trying to even escape their waking lives. There was a quote from Kevin, that I’m not going to share in case I give something away, but it hit fucking it hard.

Then I realised, just look after your health so you sleep well, and don’t feel like you need for more sleep. Once you’ve done this, make the effort to go and do something, write something, make something, share it, sell it. Rather than talking about what you’ve watched, talk about what you’ve done. Don’t wish for more unconsciousness, don’t wish away your awakeness, your life is but a blink of an eye.

Those in power, voting for euthanasia or 9 month abortions will also likely be voting to let people sign their lives over to machines like those in the matrix to escape their waking boredom. The Fabian society will vote you into a cage and you won’t even realise you’re in it, whoa that got a touch dark.

Remember, you can just do things, so do them.