Usually people learn from their mistakes, right? Maybe some of them, but I have one particular mistake from which I never seem to learn.
Last week Bess and I went down the YouTube rabbit hole, reliving our childhoods in the form of old TV show theme songs. Barney, Wishbone, Zoom, basically every PBS wonder that we ever watched as a kid. We got a particularly good laugh out of this one; I particularly remember annoying bus drivers and camp counselors with rousing renditions of it:
You know what MY song that never ends is? The song that goes, to the tune of the above (roughly), "If you drink coffee after 5pm/ You won't fall asleep no matter how tired you think you are/ You'll start drinking it cuz it is delicious/And you'll continue to lie awake forever just because you drank coffee after 5pm......."
This cycle happens roughly every 1.5 months. You have a day where you just really feel like that early evening cup is gonna get you through, and you think, "Hey, maybe THIS time will be the time my body doesn't freak out." You are, inevitably, wrong. The next day you swear you'll never do it again, and then a few weeks go by and you forget how frustrating it is and then all of a sudden you're back where you started: 5pm, thinking the last 2 classes will just be so much easier with this extra little jolt of deliciousness.
Maybe I'll learn when I'm 25?
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