Find the prompt here:
https://peakd.com/hive-161155/@daily.prompt/20-may-2024-mariannewests-freewrite-writing-prompt-day-2378-draw-every-day
Draw every day. I don't think I want to write about the prompt at all. I'm tired. Very tired. I stay up too late pretty regularly. I want to get enough sleep. I just want to go to bed and get up when I want to. But that's not my life. I have to get up with the kid, therefore I have to adjust when I go to bed. I find that so, so hard. There's always more to do and I like the quiet of the house at night. I like it. But I don't like how I feel when I don't get enough sleep regularly. Something has to change, and I know it's me, I know it's me needing to get to bed earlier and give up whatever I feel like the later night gives me. It's me giving up more time awake to have more time asleep. And I know I need the more sleep. God I miss being a teenager. I had so many fewer responsibilities. I stayed up too late then, too, but I could sleep in the next day often enough. I was homeschooled, so that helped with that. I used to get enough sleep, regularly. I prided myself on being a person who slept enough. Even when we first moved to LA, really, up until we had a kid, I was a person who got enough sleep. I don't get enough time by myself anymore, since having a kid. I sometimes feel like I shouldn't need the time by myself that I want and feel like I need. I should be okay with always being around other people, never being alone. Aren't people social, anyway? Aren't we meant to be in community with one another? Isn't it unnatural that I like to be alone?