I am sure a lot of people experience ‘sleepers remorse.’
Meaning they want more of it.
You wake up at your usual time, possibly jarred awake by the cursed alarm clock and you lie in bed and consider your options. You could get up to face another day, or you could roll over and go back to glorious sleep for another hour or two. Maybe for a day or two. After all, a warm and cozy bed is something to be cherished and celebrated, and what better way to do that than by staying warm and cozy in it?
Unfortunately, we live in an industrial age and people have jobs and schools to go to. This means that if they want to keep their jobs or continue their education they need to get up and go to their workplaces at predetermined times.
We also live in a part of the world that is cold in winter, so warm and cozy should be mandatory. I would enshrine it in the Charter of Rights that every Canadian should have a warm and cozy bed to sleep in. One that is also safe and secure.
I lived in a trailer at Northlands Trailer Park for several years and took it upon myself to winterize the place because I like warmth and coziness, and a lot of trailers and even buildings in town fail the warm and cozy test. They just aren’t built for our winters and particularly the cold snaps we get.
Here is a little test to do. Go around your dwelling and, using your hand, feel for cold that may be seeping in. Feel around your doors and windows. The cold air might be getting in there. Are the walls warm or cold? Now test your windows. If you have a place where frost is building up inside, you have a cold leak. It’s like having your refrigerator door open all the time while trying to heat your place. Some buildings in town are like that, and the only place where people feel warm and cozy is when they are in bed with a heating pad or blanket on.
When I was a kid, I had an upstairs attic room all to myself. In winter, on a cold and windy night, it could get a little cold, but to make up for that I had a big warm and cozy bed. I also discovered that a good book is the ideal companion and because I had the room to myself, I could read well into the night and not bother anyone.
Working in the bush, when the weather was bad, most of the crew read books — sometimes for days on end while a storm or blizzard raged outside. Nowadays, people can watch movies or play on electronic devices, but reading an actual book is a whole other experience and much better for improving your mind and imagination.
A person who reads books in bed is called a librocubicularist. I think you could say it libro-cubic-ula-rist. Apparently, it comes from the Greeks — way back when people had a sort of couch they would relax on. Librocubicularist is certainly not a word you hear very often, if ever, but I assume there are still a few people around who enjoy reading in bed.
Personally, I don’t like reading things on screens that much. I find my comprehension of the text is better if I read it from a real book with pages you turn. It is also easier on the eyes. I assume someone somewhere is doing a study on the effects of doing everything on screens, cellphones, tablets and computers. I would say it is probably affecting the way people think and see the world. That is not necessarily a good thing.
There is something to be said for the old-fashioned ways. Being able to decide when you want to get up or when you want to lie in a warm and cozy bed and read a good book should maybe be one of our human rights.
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