Daylight Savings Rebellion…
Control becomes a really big psychological and emotional issue when cancer visits a household. Lesson? Take back every ounce of control you can get your hands on… especially your time.
Time changes mess with the body’s natural patterns of give and take and flow, and circadian rhythms are nothing to screw around with – that’s why I hate daylight savings time. And jet travel. Both are known disrupters of circadian rhythms. And jet lag sucks.
I’ve vowed to avoid jet travel in the future if at all possible, thereby repossessing an ounce of control. But my government appears determined to undermine my circadian rhythms via daylight savings time changes.
I’m very confident the government and I will never see eye to eye on the detriments versus benefits of daylight savings time, and therefore acknowledge I am stuck with it, good, bad or indifferent.
Nevertheless, I remain a rebel.
When time “fell back” this past November into standard time, I vowed to never change another wall clock… tabletop digital clocks in the house are easy to manage during a time change, but wall clocks take more energy to access and dial up or down.
Goal and solution: double up on wall clocks so that by the time “spring ahead” rolled around we were ready to install additional wall clocks over the top of those already present… “standard time” clock in the lower, more Earth-centric position, and “daylight savings time” clock above.
Taking control of daylight savings time...
We’re happy with the way it turned out – allowing us the façade of control in our lives and coincidentally providing a new decorating theme. We share these photos to inspire your own rebellion.
Time is relative
Rebel!
PS We sincerely hope future time travel via teleportation and transporter device somehow works out the circadian rhythm disruptions inherent in crossing time zones, because jet lag sucks. So does cancer. Rebel!
