No love triangle: How to balance work, sleep, and socialising
ByChristalle Fernandes
Feb 07, 2025 05:17 PM IST
Work, socialise, sleep. It’s getting impossible to even do the three basics. Why is the bare minimum so out of reach these days?
Back in the day, a happy life had three ingredients: food, shelter, clothing. Then, in 1943, American psychologist Abraham Maslow slapped on more layers of human needs and set up a hierarchy. In addition to the basics, humans also needed to be feel safe, confident and emotionally and creatively fulfilled. And for years, it worked. Now, we’ve stretched ourselves so thin today that we’ve gone back to three basics: Work, sleep, socialising.
The math ain’t mathing. How can we work, hang out with the besties, and get eight hours of sleep too? (ADOBE STOCK)
Find the balance that works for you. It makes no sense to be peer-pressured into achieving it all. (ADOBE STOCK)Make time for what you can keep up with, whether it’s sleeping in or pulling all-nighters to work. (ADOBE STOCK)