Chapter 115 An opportunity to change your daily routine
It was only when she started preparing for fitness exercises that she realized something was wrong - why did she feel that today's schedule was a bit strange?
With a little thought, I understood that because a neighbor on the same floor was out, the sleeping schedule was postponed.
Combined with the time to fall asleep and wake up, it is equivalent to moving the overall sleep time back by two hours.
According to this day-night schedule that was changed due to the high temperature, there is originally a period of entertainment time between getting up and the middle meal, another entertainment time after the middle meal, and then exercise time.
However, due to the overall delay in sleep time, getting up and the middle meal coincide with each other, resulting in the period of time before the middle meal being eaten every day being squeezed out.
She has been living strictly according to her work and rest schedule for the past three months, so when something changes, her body will feel something is wrong even if her brain doesn't react yet.
When she first woke up, it was because she hadn't slept well and her mind was in a daze. If she had been awake at that time, she would have postponed her entire schedule by two hours.
——It’s time to change your routine.
Originally, she thought that it was time to change her schedule when the weather got cold, but yesterday she felt her mind had been opened up after she found someone going out and bringing back supplies.
She recalled that when she first changed her schedule, it was because of the hot weather and power cuts. Communications were not cut off at that time, so everyone had to go to work when they were supposed to. Working hours naturally shifted to the night when the city's power supply was unified.
For most people who still have to go to work, their schedule should consist of activities at night and rest during the day. Wei Jiao naturally changes her schedule according to this point.
Later, the communication was disconnected. Although she didn't know how those companies arranged it, her observation showed that no one changed from working from home to commuting.
Whether looking from the surveillance camera or looking down from the window, no one is going out, which means work has come to a standstill.
At this time, although there are no "working hours", the high temperature during the day makes it difficult to go out. Only at night when there is no direct sunlight, people have a chance to breathe.
Therefore, people will naturally continue to work and rest as before. During the high temperature stage, society has tacitly chosen to reverse day and night, resting during the day and being active at night.
So, what will be the opportunity for the next social change in work and rest?
She had thought too little before and thought it had something to do with the temperature. When the weather stopped being hot, people would naturally adjust back to the familiar routine of working at sunrise and resting at sunset.
In fact, upon further reflection, she subconsciously felt that when the high temperature dropped, people would return to their original routines. The reason was not the temperature, but the light during the day.
Humans are not nocturnal animals. From a fundamental physiological point of view, daytime with sunlight is the comfort zone for human activities.
Coupled with the inheritance of farming genes—although we don’t know whether farming will be possible after the end of the world—human beings are creatures that move during the day.
Only objective obstacles like high temperature force humans to avoid the edge and choose less painful nights for activities.
But once this obstacle is broken, human beings will of course automatically return to their original work and rest habits of sleeping at night and rising by day.
Now, what broke the barrier of high temperature was not the temperature as she thought, but the shortage of supplies.
Heavy rains that can extinguish high temperatures are just a pusher. From another perspective, they are also a stumbling block for humans in trying to make up for material shortages.
——It is also a physical stumbling block. Once the water rises, it will cause considerable obstruction to traffic. Although the sun is scorching during the high temperature period, the road is still walkable, but not during heavy rain.
And the push hand is precisely reflected in this point - once people realize that stagnant water will block roads and trap people, then people who lack food and clothing at home will definitely choose to go out while they can still go out.
Even if it rains heavily and the temperature stays high, if you don't seize the opportunity, you may not have the chance in the future.
When she once again took advantage of the ventilation to raise the telescope, what she saw confirmed this point.
She saw someone appear downstairs.
The water was not too much now. She looked at it and it was still about the level of her ankles. The man was wearing a long raincoat and rain boots. It looked like he was moving with difficulty and the water was dripping, and he slowly moved out of sight.
The surveillance camera just saw someone going out, and a similar situation happened again in the blink of an eye. She thought that this was no coincidence, but the inevitable result of the heavy rain, and...
This was just what she saw.
The surveillance camera could only see half of her floor, and the range that the telescope could see was also very limited, only these few buildings. Perhaps, this is not the first time someone in the community has gone out to look for supplies.
She could see that maybe it wasn't just because people realized they had to go out before the water rose, but because there were enough people going out and there was a certain sample size, so the chance of being seen by her increased. .
——She suddenly realized that the heavy rain seemed to be pushed not only by one hand, but by both hands. The other hidden hand, or the hand she had never been aware of, was the change brought about by the heavy rain. itself.
Just as she herself moved the ventilation time from late night to daytime because she wanted to observe the outside world, others would naturally have the same idea.
This sudden heavy rain broke the high temperature that lasted for several months. It was the time when water and electricity communications were completely cut off. People were panicked. Everyone will be very concerned about the situation of this heavy rain.
The water shortage makes people feel happy about the arrival of the rain. The shortage of water resources will make people spontaneously accumulate rainwater; people pay attention to the size of the rain and want to know when the high temperature will drop.
After a while, when heavy rains continue, people will start to worry about the water accumulation problem again, and then naturally start to observe it frequently.
Then, people will subtly and unknowingly spend more time during the day, using the skylight to collect rainwater, observe stagnant water, worry about food storage at home, and then choose to go out to search for supplies during the day when it is more convenient to travel.
——She suddenly realized that perhaps the social routine was changing even before she knew it.
It's because her life is so smooth and she has a golden finger in hand, without those worries and worries, that she can't really stand in the perspective of others and guess the opportunities for changes in her work and rest.
From this point of view, she would like to thank the neighbor who went out on the same floor for reminding her and broadening her thinking.
In this case, it’s time to start preparing to adjust your schedule.
This stage was heavy rain, and the next stage was extreme cold. Neither of them were like high temperatures, which made nighttime activities more suitable than daytime, so she planned to adjust her schedule back to the original daytime activities and rest at night.