Do you know the saying that night shift workers don't see the sun? Which basically mean that we don't have a life.
Most of the you probably think that people, who work during the night, don't live during the day, because they sleep all the time. That's why, theoretically, relationships between night and daytime workers are impossible. Isn't it true ? Do you know why it wouldn't work out? I will try to show you on a simple example. Listen closly.
It's 6pm, you just finished working and guess what, I am preparing myself to start my night shift and work when you'll be sleeping. I will come back home around 4am, probably wake you up for a possible sex or something hoping you're not too tired or sleepy. After we will be laying next to each other, you will kiss my neck and I will pull you closer to me to feel the warmth of your body. Then we will fall asleep holding each other. Sounds good, doesn't it?
Ok, now it's 9am and you have to wake up to go to work. You will try to do it quietly not to wake me up, but I will probably do just to make you a coffee and spend few minutes with you before you leave. And you do. It's 9:30am. I go back to sleep to wake up 2h later. It's 12 o'clock now and I am getting ready to grab a fast dinner with you. We go to some nice place or just sit on the beach eating pizza and drinking beer.
2pm
You're going back to work and I am living my life till 6pm.
It's 6pm....and we're back to the beginning of this story.
There are no evenings together. We usually don't sit on the couch at 8pm eating some take away, cuddling and watching movies. We don't have time for that, we've got different lives, different schedules.
Of course there is also this one day a week when we've got time for each other. Then we do all kind of stuff together. Stuff we don't have time for during the week when we're working. We are forgetting about the world.
There's just you and me.
How does it look for you? Did you like this little story about these two people being together?
Honestly, I did. When I started writing it I thought I wouldn't, but it doesn't look that bad, you know? I was trying to prove a point that relationships between night shift and day shift workers or in general people with different live schedules are impossible. But how wrong I was. It seems difficult when you think about it, but you can work out evrything If only you want to.
I do realize this post is a total mess. So are my thoughts in my head. I am trying to clean up my mind, to organize everything what's cluttering inside. So don't mind me and take as much as you can from this story. We all hear what we want to hear and we all understand what our mind is capable to understand.
Edit from 30/09/2017
The story is nice, can't hide it. But after taking some things under the consideration I got to the conclusion that it would be very hard or even impossible to have a relationship like this. Ok, maybe if both of you are two people who like their own space more than anything and don't need to spend time one with another, then maybe yes. But relationships are about spending time together, being there for each other. If you are working 9am-6pm and me from 7pm-3am or the opposite, there's no way it could work. Just a recent thought ;)
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