You know that you are exhausted when you sit down and you find that you can’t feel your feet anymore. A numbing sensation overwhelms your entire physical state. Your mind empties itself and your eyes stare unfocusedly into empty space.
I have come to realise how school vacations can have such a toll on your body. School is often mentally challenging but rarely physically tiring. Partying with your friends during the term break, on the other hand, requires an infinite stamina that encompasses both the mental and physical. Why do I say this? Well, for one thing, when you participate in all the dancing and swaying on the disco floors of night parties — drinking in the sights and sounds of bright disco lights and cheesy retro music, inhaling the intoxicating blend of cigarette smoke and alcohol — your physical body begins to exhaust itself and your mental state begins to break down. You really don’t think about what you are doing anymore; movements become repetitive; your soul evaporates, replaced by a mechanical substitute. Sleep at this juncture is pertinent to recovery. However, the addiction to the trance-inducing atmosphere persuades Inertia to linger a little longer.
