is this you?

It’s 12:10 am already, you are still chatting with your best friend. You tell him that you are about to sleep, meanwhile, you are setting 5 alarms on your phone from 6 am to 6:30 am, just in case you won’t be late for school again, Goodnight…

Oops, your friend just sent you a goodnight gif on google hangout, get up and reply to him!            Goodnight Hangout Gif by Tenor via Google Image CC by NC 2.0

Finally,  you are ready to sleep…Oh, Wait! You haven’t done your homework yet!

You just rushed through all your assignments, Now you are going to sleep no matter what happens…Goodnight. (Beep Beep Beep)

“It’s 6 already!?” “No, No, No, I’m going to rest my eyes for 5 minutes more, yeah…5 Minutes…” (Beep Beep Beep) “Oh my god, stop!” Now you have turned off all of your alarms, and try to take a “5-Minute” Rest…… Then You have a dream, a bad dream, that wakes you up, when you wake up, it’s already 7:30.

what does it mean to sleep early?

Does that situation describe YOU? if so, why? Why do we not want to sleep? 

Have you ever thought of SLEEPING EARLY will not allow you to catch up all the homework assignments? Or maybe you feel less “productive” if you sleep early? Or, you need time to check your friend’s updated social media status? This is what most teenagers are worried about during their high school career. So you are not an exception! Everyone does, sometimes sleeping early makes us feel like we are “Wasting Time”, so we decide to do more things to “fulfill” our life. But that leads us to “Not Enough Sleep”.

Teenager Falling Asleep                                                                                                                                                  Teenager Falling Asleep While  Using Technology by Soma Tiwari via Google Image CC by NC 2.0

According to a research conducted by The Conversation. it shows the majority of the teenagers between the age of 16 to 19 sleep with an average bedtime at 11:37 pm. It means that if the student has to wake up at around 6:30 to 7:00 am, then he/she only gets roughly 7 hours of sleep which is definitely not enough for a student to stay fully productive all day long.

We don’t take enough sleep because we misunderstood WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SLEEP EARLY. The MAIN reason is not a huge load of homework, nor social media distraction. Rather, it is our concept to “Sleeping Early”. It’s completely wrong!

Is this you? When your mom forces you to sleep but then you see it as a punishment, we always think sleeping early is a reflection of laziness, it will waste a lot of time to study or socialize. However, sleeping early actually enhance grades, increase productivity and improve memory. You might be asking: “What about friends?” Of course, you will have enough time to socialize, I would say more than ever! Well, when you are being productive, you will have less stress, and you will find easier to socialize. So, we should all place sleeping as a priority!

 “Waking up” will disappear from the list of “toughest job on earth” since you start sleeping earlier.

waking up, toughest job on earth 

The clock is ticking, you have been wakened up by your mom, your eyes are still sticky, your dad is in the bathroom, your sister is brushing her teeth and trying to find her missing cloth at the same time, you are trying to catch up the Math homework from last night.

The clock is ticking but at a slow pace, you have been wakened up by a few singing sparrows, you open the fridge, and sees there’s still enough milk for cereal, so you decide to turn on some music and finish your cereal slowly, meanwhile, you contact your friends that you will be going to the Christmas event and finished the Math homework that you forgot to do.

Oh! By the way, Also, you watched a few episodes TV talk shows. What a fulfilled morning!

This is the two kinds of “waking ups”. Which one do you prefer? – Then Choose Your Bedtime Wisely.

Goodnight, I’m going to sleep, too. I hope I will have enough time for a cereal tomorrow. 

 

References: Why children who sleep more get better grades. (2015). The Conversation. Retrieved 13 December 2018, from https://theconversation.com/why-children-who-sleep-more-get-better-grades-51828

Image Sleepy Goodnight GIF – Sleepy Goodnight Emoji – Discover & Share GIFs. (2018). Tenor. Retrieved 13 December 2018, from https://tenor.com/view/sleepy-goodnight-emoji-snore-gif-5082086

Image how, E. (2018). Excessive use of technology harms your sleep! Here’s how. Scientific Mystery. Retrieved 13 December 2018, from https://www.scientificmystery.com/excessive-technology-harms/

 

 

Social Media Life, Social media lie.

#Love #Travel #Bestdayever… Everything seems so perfect on social media, but behind those happy pictures, things are not as perfect as it appears to be on the internet. In the video, the main character sees how everyone is showing their accomplishment after workout and exercises, everyone seems so happy, it makes him depressed, and wonders “Why is everyone having a better life than mine?” That triggers him to get off the chair, take his workout shoes, and……. instead of working out, he takes a picture of himself and goes back to his seat…

Paul and I were inspired by one of our posts about Digital Citizenship and a short film about Facebook called What’s on your mind, we want to represent how social media influence us to behave differently online, is it because that it’s digital? so that we will have more confidence? Is it because of the environment? everyone seems so happy so we want to be apart of them? it even leads us to fake our current status, trying to seek attention.

From a regular photo in the album to a filtered photo with hundreds of likes on social media, it only takes few seconds to do it, but it seems so “hard” for teenagers like us, many of us are even being anxious about “posting a photo”. From selecting filters and thinking of a caption and hashtag, it all takes so much longer than supposed to be. All for one single purpose, feedback.

Positive feedbacks make us feel important as a person, everyone wants to be treated or viewed as an important person in the community, so we “carefully” post something in order to get positive feedbacks instead of negative feedbacks, it is human nature that everyone wants to be treated in a friendly manner, but when we fake our status in order to grab attention and feedbacks, it would become a twisted thought.

Now rewatch the video, and see what new messages do you see from the video.