Late Sleeping

Each day moves less slowly than the day before or the day before that and yet I know not how many days that might be left for me as the way the game is played is the way each day is approached, understood, and used to one's advantage and for gratitude for the day itself that you were given.  Odd how my thoughts flow out as I get older and older and farther from my youth than I have ever been before as each day passes ever so quickly right before my eyes.

When I was working, my mornings always began at 5:00 am and not a moment before and I was in bed the night before by 9:00 pm or 10:00 pm.  On the weekends, I would sleep another hour or so and was up by 6:00 or 6:30 am.  Then, when on vacation and as much as I would try, my days began somewhere between 5:00 am or 6:00 am and not a minutes after...   until, it was the last day or two of my week off and I was beginning to relax a bit, but the vacation was over.

Being retired has turned into starting my mornings much later than ever before at 7:00 am or 7:30 am but sometimes and for no apparent reason, I do not awake until 8:00 am or 8:30 am or even later.  It matters not if I had been working outside the day before or not, my awaking time gets later and later.

Perhaps it is old age.

Perhaps it is the treatment for the cancers.

Perhaps it is my body and mind becoming more relaxed.

Perhaps it is the result of me urinating several times throughout the might.

And, while my days seems to be started later and later, that does just present me with bad news or news that is less than positive (depending upon one's perspective) but there seems to be a silver lining similar to one my mother always used to find and that is the fact that the longer I sleep in the morning, the less I eat during the day.