Thursday 2 November 2006

In Praise of Naps

Posted by speedygeoff on Thursday, November 02, 2006 with

Naps

…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….

Thought provoking articles at the Toronto Star: The modern world killed off the nap, and Is sleep obsolete