To Sleep, Perchance to Dream.

"To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: aye, there's the rub"  ~~Shakespeare's Hamlet.

No one explained to me that when we get old, we don't sleep so well.  My tribulations with sleep started when my daughter and grandchildren ingloriously moved out.  I know I do a lot of things that contribute to my inability to sleep long term, but I refuse to medicate.  It will work out, in time.  I just do what I can.  This week, I am probably averaging 3-5 hours per night.  I'm not on a schedule, so there is no problem.  If I get up at 3:00 AM to putter around until I get sleepy again, there is no one to make me feel guilty for doing so.  It is what it is!!

Sleep is highly overrated!  'Tis a bit ironic that teenagers and young people crave it, and old people don't need it.  What's up with that??