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It was another tough week.
I know you are available whenever I am, but thanks to several papers, tests and meetings, we did not get to spend any time together this week – and I miss you.
We got to spend a lot of time together before college, sometimes up to eight hours a day. You brought me happiness and always put an extra hop in my walk, but I never truly appreciated you until I went to college.
That was when everything changed.
School quickly absorbed my life, so I have to cut back on what I enjoy most. While it kills me to do so, “us time” is the hardest cutback I make. Even though you are at the same school and you are never too far, there is always something keeping us from spending time together.
Three years into college, I still care about you, but I’m seeing you less and less – and it is starting to take its toll. My grades are dropping, I’m more irritable and that extra hop in my walk has been replaced by dragging feet.
Sometimes you visit me in class, but that never ends well. When this happens, I often miss valuable notes or I get in trouble for not paying attention, because when we are together I cannot possibly be productive.
As college takes over, you are silent. You do what you can for me, but to be truly there for me you must be exactly that – there. Yet I keep pushing you away for just another hour of homework or so that I can send out a few more e-mails.
The more work I have, the more I need you, but that usually means I get to see you even less – except on Fridays.
The pain I go through is tough, but knowing that I will always have you at least once a week is what gets me by. Our night is Friday night, and it means the world to me.
Sure, I have homework to do, and sometimes my friends are disappointed that I don’t go out with them instead. However, those things can wait, because Friday is our night. Friends can wait until Saturday night and homework can wait until Sunday night.
So come here and curl up in bed with me. It is time to get reacquainted.
I love you, sleep.
Contact CU Independent Managing Editor Cameron Naish at Naish@colorado.edu.
