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I Have Never Been Able To Nap During The Day, Now That I Am In College, It Is Annoying

I can never understand how people can just lay down at three o'clock in the afternoon and take a thirty minute to three-hour nap. I can't even take a ten minute one!

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I Have Never Been Able To Nap During The Day, Now That I Am In College, It Is Annoying
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As a college student and working part-time at least twenty hours a week I get extremely tired and drained easily, mainly just mentally. From waking up at 6:30 am or 7:30 am depending which day it is, going to classes, doing homework and assignments, and then going to work and not getting back home until almost 10 pm is very tiring. All I want to do is nap between class and work but I never can. So here are my struggles with not being able to nap.

Since elementary school, as far as I can remember, I could never really take a nap during the day. I never really cared as a kid but now it is annoying. I can never understand how people can just lay down at three o'clock in the afternoon and take a thirty minute to three-hour nap. I can't even take a ten minute one! I know, I am not normal, especially for a college student. How do people do it?

When I get out of my classes, the time between then and work all I want to do is relax and try to nap so I can actually be energetic and happy at work. I end up doing homework or just trying to nap which always fails. Normally I end up just going to work tired and in not much of a good mood. Not being able to nap probably is the reason why I get so cranky easily or emotional.

So, by the time I get home at night, I am so drained and all I want to do is get into bed. Most nights I can't just get into bed. I have to finish homework or read something for my class the next day. Then, once that is all done I have to do a whole face routine so my face can be clean when I go to bed. Sometimes I just take off my makeup with a makeup remover wipe so I can just jump into bed. Although, sometimes even when I am extremely tired, when I get into bed I cannot fall asleep at all. So, I end up staying up until one in the morning watching youtube videos.

If I am sick or if I hadn't gotten much sleep the night before, nope, still not taking a nap. I can be lazy, lay in bed, and literally do nothing but I cannot fall asleep for anything. I will literally just lay in bed with my eyes closed trying and trying to fall asleep but it never happens. I JUST WANT TO NAP!

Maybe one day in the future, probably when I have kids HA, I will be able to take a nap even if it is once a week!


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