Late in the Day Nap 3
The nap is not the issue here, Dude
As you’ve probably figured out by now, we love naps -- you could say they’re our raison d'être. We love talking about them and encouraging our community to nap early, nap often, nap hard, nap fast, and nap together when possible -- Rabbi Evan and I may have a collocated nap in the cards later this month, we’ll keep you posted.
Accordingly, we believe that any reason to nap is a good reason and that napping is not some kind of laziness thing (far from it, Dude). And yet I’ve been feeling somehow unsettled about a recent late-in-the-day nap and am not sure why. Isn’t napping what we’re about here at TND? If any reason to nap is a good reason, then why am I so terribly vexed?
OK, this is nuanced. I agree with Hen that there is no bad reason to nap. I feel fine that I took a late nap because I was tired after being up late the night before -- it makes sense. The nap is not the issue here, Dude.
I think what’s really bothering me is what undergirded my need for a nap: deciding to stay up late, a decision I’ve made pretty much nightly for the last few weeks. Put differently, I think it’s great that I took a nap because I was tired – but I don’t feel great about the reasons for being tired at that point.
So what happens when you don’t like the why behind the why? More tomorrow!