Does Time Really Change?
Today we spring forward. Sounds good right? Springing forward sounds like fun! Then the reality sets in. We lose an hour. Noooooooo! I don't want to lose an hour!
Do we really lose an hour? Does time actually change? No and no. We haven't really lost anything. Time doesn't change. We just change what we call it. We still have 24 hours in a day. We can choose what we do with those hours.
Now, I realize that the time change does impact many people. If you have a job, you still have to be there at a specific time. If your kids are in school, you still have to get them up, pack their lunches and send them off. People will be tired tomorrow morning. They won't want to wake up at what feels like 5:00, just because someone decided to call it 6:00. They won't want to go to bed at what feels like 9:00, just because someone calls it 10:00. I get it. I used to be impacted by things like this.
No more. I'm a stay at home, homeschooling mom. My husband works for himself. We actually don't have to change a thing, unless we want to. We still have to change our clocks, just so we can participate in life outside our home, but we can get up when we're ready and go to sleep when we're tired.
Choice. It's all about choice. There are definitely downsides to homeschooling and being self-employed. There's a great deal of risk involved when you choose to take ownership of almost everything in your world. But, the thing that far outweighs those risk is the FREEDOM. Sweet, sweet freedom. Yes, it means that my husband and I have more responsibility than we would if we sent our kids to school and if he worked for someone else. However, it also means we have more say in how we live our lives. That's what we want. We don't buy into the idea that someone else knows better about education or making money. We don't think there's any real security in working for someone else. They could fire you at any time. We never fire ourselves. We don't believe that anyone could make better use of our time than we can.
Therefore, time doesn't change. Our society just changes the way we label the hours. That's the society's choice. We don't have enough of a voice to change that. So, we just choose not to participate. That's how we handle education, business, cooking, cleaning and many other things. We don't like to outsource much.
That being said, I went to bed at 8:30 last night and woke up at the 'new' 5:30. Eight hours was plenty of sleep. I'm well-rested and ready to go. It's 6:20 AM and I'm having my coffee while writing to you. My kids will get up when they're ready and go to sleep when they're tired.
It made me think about all the ways we force ourselves to fit into someone else's schedule and meet the demands of those we don't respect or even know. Why? Because everyone else is doing it? Who cares? Not me. Not anymore. Freedom feels so good.
How can you live your life with more freedom? Or, how can you make it easier for yourself to adapt? When we did have to be on someone else's schedule, I used to slowly adjust our sleep and wake times during the week prior to the time change. That helps. Kids are much more willing to handle change when it's slow and barely perceptible. We would move bedtime up by fifteen minutes each night, until we were on the new time. Then, they would naturally wake up at the 'right' time, once the time had changed. That's my advice, if you have to do the school and work thing. It really did help.
Good luck this week!
Do we really lose an hour? Does time actually change? No and no. We haven't really lost anything. Time doesn't change. We just change what we call it. We still have 24 hours in a day. We can choose what we do with those hours.
Now, I realize that the time change does impact many people. If you have a job, you still have to be there at a specific time. If your kids are in school, you still have to get them up, pack their lunches and send them off. People will be tired tomorrow morning. They won't want to wake up at what feels like 5:00, just because someone decided to call it 6:00. They won't want to go to bed at what feels like 9:00, just because someone calls it 10:00. I get it. I used to be impacted by things like this.
No more. I'm a stay at home, homeschooling mom. My husband works for himself. We actually don't have to change a thing, unless we want to. We still have to change our clocks, just so we can participate in life outside our home, but we can get up when we're ready and go to sleep when we're tired.
Choice. It's all about choice. There are definitely downsides to homeschooling and being self-employed. There's a great deal of risk involved when you choose to take ownership of almost everything in your world. But, the thing that far outweighs those risk is the FREEDOM. Sweet, sweet freedom. Yes, it means that my husband and I have more responsibility than we would if we sent our kids to school and if he worked for someone else. However, it also means we have more say in how we live our lives. That's what we want. We don't buy into the idea that someone else knows better about education or making money. We don't think there's any real security in working for someone else. They could fire you at any time. We never fire ourselves. We don't believe that anyone could make better use of our time than we can.
Therefore, time doesn't change. Our society just changes the way we label the hours. That's the society's choice. We don't have enough of a voice to change that. So, we just choose not to participate. That's how we handle education, business, cooking, cleaning and many other things. We don't like to outsource much.
That being said, I went to bed at 8:30 last night and woke up at the 'new' 5:30. Eight hours was plenty of sleep. I'm well-rested and ready to go. It's 6:20 AM and I'm having my coffee while writing to you. My kids will get up when they're ready and go to sleep when they're tired.
It made me think about all the ways we force ourselves to fit into someone else's schedule and meet the demands of those we don't respect or even know. Why? Because everyone else is doing it? Who cares? Not me. Not anymore. Freedom feels so good.
How can you live your life with more freedom? Or, how can you make it easier for yourself to adapt? When we did have to be on someone else's schedule, I used to slowly adjust our sleep and wake times during the week prior to the time change. That helps. Kids are much more willing to handle change when it's slow and barely perceptible. We would move bedtime up by fifteen minutes each night, until we were on the new time. Then, they would naturally wake up at the 'right' time, once the time had changed. That's my advice, if you have to do the school and work thing. It really did help.
Good luck this week!
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