Naps - grownups need them

Part of being a child is that you get to take naps. Babies get naps, and they still get to sleep a lot of the night (if their parents are lucky). Preschoolers have nap time, kindergartners only go to school half a day and a lot of them take naps. Heck, when I was in high school, I would come home after school and take a 2 hour nap and then still go to bed around 10:30. I was so well rested. Now, I am grown up and have an 8:30 - 5 job and there is no TIME for naps. It's very disappointing because I feel more tired now, but don't necessarily want to go to bed at 10pm just to get my FULL 8 hours in. I will force myself to be in bed by 11, despite the great desire I have to stay up because I know if I don't get close to 8 hours, I will be a slobbering mess the next day. Nope - I just cannot function well.

I think employers should allow their employees an hour to an hour and a half for a nap in the middle of the day. However, I realize that I am American, and we tend to overwork ourselves, so this is probably not going to happen. Just imagine how productive we could be though if we were all well rested both physically and mentally. It would be amazing. Sadly, I think my dream of a national nap hour is not to come to pass, so in the meantime, you can all do what I did today: eat your lunch at your desk and then use your lunch hour to take a nap in the back of your car.