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Not Enough Sleep

September 26, 2019
By Anonymous

Over the summer, I thought that I would be able to stay up all night watching dramas, kpop, anime, BTS and play games. And now during school hours I feel like crap because I do not get enough sleep. All I really want now is an 8 hours sleep but do I get that?...No, no I don’t.


Pulling an all nighters was one of my best times and my worst. Why? Because at night I get to watch and play games all I want but when I wake up in the morning it is the worst time of the day for me. Just not a morning person. Everytime I wake up in the morning it’s because of my older sister Cheng.


“ Why do you always wake me up so early?!” I complained.

“ I don’t care, now get your ass up!” Cheng yells as she walks away.

I whined,” But I'm tired…”

 

To be honest, I will never learn my lessons. But that is only for summer breaks. Before summer break I’ll say that I’m going to work hard on volleyball, but I only work for a week or two then I get tired and have no motivation to go forward. That’s what makes me stop working hard. And that’s when my bad habit of staying up all night comes in. My body hates me for staying up all night and not waking up in the morning, but wakes up in the afternoon or evening.


“ Yahh! Chonna! Get up! It’s already 10:00 am !” she yells as she tears the blanket off of my warm body and opens the window curtains to let the sun shine in the room.


I groaned as the cold breeze hit my body. And push my head into my soft pillow and cuddle my body because of the morning breeze.


“ Ughh….why...is it morning already….” I thought and sighed after.

“ Go make rice right now.” Cheng says as my little brother cries in her arms.


As always, I’ll lay in bed and sleep for a couple of minutes as my sister comes back and yells at me again. And threatens to take my phone if I don’t get up.


“ Yahhh wake up before I take your phone right now!” she yells for the 3rd time.

“ Ughh….fine I’m up dang….I’ll be there in 10 minutes….” I reply in a sleep and half awake voice.

“ Oh my god I can’t wait until school starts again so I don’t have to babysit.” I mumble as I make my way out of my bed and into the hallway where the bathroom is.

 

And…..It’s night time. What do I do? I make a bad choice again like always. I stay up until like 3 or 5 watching BTS, dramas, or play mobile games on my cracked phone. I know that my body hates me in the morning for this but I can’t help but satisfy or entertain my brain and my interest. Yeah basically this repeated for the rest of the summer until school started again. 


Kids don’t do this if you are, stop. Why? Because you will regret it later on like me. Do not take sleep for granted!! You’ll know how important sleep is until you can’t get any sleep. Sleep as much as you can before you don’t have anymore time to sleep.


The author's comments:

Don't take anything for granted, cherish it.


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