𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝐼𝑡 𝑇𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑠 𝐹𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠

2. Countless Sleepless Nights

One month. It's already been more than a month since I started my last year of being a college student and all I can say is that it's become so tiring. Even though I am already used to sleeping late just to complete my requirements, the scale that I have experienced for this month is on another level.

As a child, I was raised to sleep early. Even if I did not want to, I was unable to do so since I slept in the same room with my parents and siblings. As such, I am not used to sleeping so late at night. I consider 10 PM to 11 PM to be late already. However, things started to change when I started college.

You see, classes for college students in my school run from around 1 PM until 9 PM except for Saturday classes since it offers morning classes which start at 9 AM. To be honest, I never imagined that my sleeping pattern would change since I still have mornings to do my requirements. However, I was unable to do them since there was only one computer in our house.

I have two younger siblings who have morning classes so I have no choice but to let them use it for their online classes. Due to this reason, I started staying up late just to finish my requirements. At first, it was not that bad, but things got worse when I arrived in the second semester of my first year in college.

Different professors started giving out projects and activities and I felt my body and mind falling apart for some time. Too much stress has piled up that I even had an irregular period once when I never experienced it before since I always had regular menstruation every month.

Even if that was the case, I did not give up. Slowly but surely, my body started to adjust to my new sleeping patterns. When I arrived in my second year, I could already tolerate staying awake for at least midnight and it changed once again in my third year where I sometimes had to stay awake for at least 1 AM just to finish my activities.

My body clock changed so much that I had quite a hard time adjusting when I had my OJT since I needed to go to work in the morning. Still, my body adjusted to it which was amazing in my opinion. Now I am back to spending my days sleeping at dawn which would not have been a big problem if it wasn't for my body suddenly waking up even if I did not have much enough sleep.

To be honest, I am already experiencing insomniac symptoms and I am starting to feel afraid that this will impact my health. However, until I graduate, from now onwards, I still have to spend a lot of Countless Sleepless Nights.

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Hey guys! It's been a while and to be honest I am feeling drained recently. It's just the first month and I already received a lot of major requirements that take up all my time.  I've been wanting to update my ongoing series but the stress just makes me head blank that I am unable to write something. It's frustrating to be honest which is why I wrote this chapter to let it out somehow. Right now, all I wish is to bury my head in my pillow since I feel that my head may burst at any minute yet due to another requirement that I must accomplish, I must still stay awake. Even though I feel so burned out, I hope that you are having a great time whatever you are doing right now. My proof will be attached after this message so feel free to look at it and see if I am sticking to my rules. Enjoy reading everyone!