Earlier today I was speaking to someone about the stresses of living in Korea and I mentioned that I was waking up in the middle of the night every night at around the same time.

In the course of the conversation, they asked “What do you like to do to relax?”

It’s funny because this question has come up a few times recently.

My answer was that although I like watching movies and tv (sometimes really bad sci-fi) I really enjoy relaxing with a cup of coffee or dinner or brunch with good friends.  Just being social and chatting about random (and sometimes not so random) stuff.

The activities themselves are made (and made so much more meaningful) when shared with people you love and people who love you.

This is what it comes back to for me (and us) in Korea.

We haven’t had many of those experiences and because of that, I think we feel incomplete.

On a slightly related note, I searched the internet for the issue and ran across this item from Holistic By Nature that describes the Chinese Medicine ‘Meridian Clock,’ and what it allegedly means when you wake up at the same time every night.

Pretty accurate, no?