QOTD: Avoidance

What are you avoiding?

Going to bed. My body's quite tired, my mind is wide awake and a bit anxious because I have a whole lot to do and I can't seem to focus. I know that a nice, long catch-up sleep would recharge me so that I could get moving on work first thing when I wake up and I'm sure the work would be much better, too, but... I'm being stubborn. Going to bed now feels like throwing in the towel. I keep trying to find a compromise -- maybe if I knock one thing off the to-do list I can just go to bed for a few hours then come back to knock a few more things off it... that makes sense, right? Except that I know once I fall asleep it will be quite difficult to wake me again in a 'few hours'. That's the plus side of this new medication: I sleep! The downside? I have been doing work through the night for more than 10 years now, it's hard to get used to how much time sleeping eats up. Days feel so short! How do you do it? And, while we're at it, what are you avoiding?

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