Don't try to be the fastest

In the morning, she would wake up
and check her tracker first thing
to see how she performed scored herself.

I wanted that 100%.
I always wanted to be the optimal sleeper.
But what got me there sometimes wasn't healthy.

Sleep is a passive biological process,
not a skill to be perfected won.

When people begin grading or striving
to improve nightly sleep scores,
it often increases worry and pressure at bedtime.

And it became exhausting.

The body had been resting all along, in the dark, without a score.