24 Hours Don’t Make A Day

A way to avert stress and achieve more.

Augustine Ojeh
5 min readJul 24, 2020
Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash

Since the beginning of civilization, humans have believed that 24 hours make a day. There’s been no reason to question this postulation. Clearly, it took 24 hours for the world to come back just the same way it was the day before. Science holds that the Earth rotates around its axis in 24 hours, but the inference that a complete rotation makes a day still remains blurry to me.

Individually, allowing the rising and setting of the sun to dictate the length of our day is a catastrophic flaw on our part. It’s a mentality that should be eliminated for many good reasons.

With the quick flow of information and thunder-speed lifestyles that has taken over the world in this current age, squeezing an entire day’s endeavours into 24 hours is life-threatening.

24 hours do not make a day and there is no definite number of hours that makes a day. Days are fluid. Some days could be less than 20 hours while some could be way more than 30 hours. Ignore your circadian rhythm for a moment and let me explain further.

The downside of this 24-hours-a-day mentality.

Because we are tightly screwed inside a box mentally, we find it increasingly difficult to live a fluid life even when life generally…

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Augustine Ojeh
Augustine Ojeh

Written by Augustine Ojeh

Son. Husband. Dad. Co-founder. Friend. Building Roodi. Write what I think. Write what I know. And write what I do. Most times, I'm right. Sometimes, I'm not.