Waking up a little foggy this morning. Nap time last night? As usual, 9:30 p.m. in bed because the night will be long. The alarm clock that rings at 1am, nothing. Then at 2 o’clock… nothing. Then at 3 o’clock, hell, still nothing. Game will begin shortly as they say, but ” shortly »… When is it? Because it is now official since yesterday morning and the title of the Lakers, the NBA takes a break after an incredibly strange 2019-20 season. And what about us ? We will have to get used to a life without matches, to a daytime life, to a lack that is already eating away at us.
The routine is usually more than square. Small nap, one hour max otherwise the alarm clock is foggy, and all in front of the PC screen or the TV from 1 am. Then the dark circles are forgotten for a while, as the balloons bounce, as the pumps squeal on the shiny slats of the floors, and this until the early morning when two teams oppose each other. The unemployment / vacation / RTT team who will see with a hell of a good eye the opportunity to get back to the stake for a few hours, and the courage team who will have no other choice but to go to work while hiding as much as possible. boss fatigue due to yet another sleepless or almost sleepless night. There you have it, that’s our lives, very generally from October to June, when fate does not take care of disturbing our habits as was the case in 2020. 2020, damn vintage corked even if in the end the back- The taste is not so yucky, a vintage in any case different from absolutely all the others, a bottle attacked almost a year ago and just finished, the fault of the unofficial MIP of the 2019-20 season: COVID. The word “postponed” at the top of the poster in March, a magical but strange return in July, and ultimately a fireworks display in the middle of October, when the season … 2020-21 should logically resume in those foggy days. For those who would like to relive the summary of this funny exercise in just a few minutes? It happens in the video below, bristling hairs mode activated:
A year unlike any other.
This was the 2019-2020 NBA Season ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/ECtafEley2
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) October 12, 2020
That’s for retro, but now let’s move on to our near future, what our days to come will be made of, in the rare event that we … already know. Because one word predominates in these next few Finals: “lost”. Lost as we are from having to build an autumnal rhythm of life, at a time of year when our days and nights are usually organized. “And now what do we do?” ”, Only an NBA fan can understand how much this question haunts us now. What do we do with our nights when our eyes are as open as the Knicks defense at 2 a.m.? What do we do with our days if we can’t even get hyper while waiting for the night’s game (s)? Do we really have to open the Télépoche and choose between Joséphine Ange Gardien or a fortieth replay of CSI Miami? Knowing that we got well for weeks in front of… another kind of Miami expert? Hard, super hard eh, especially since usually the end of the Playoffs is synonymous with the arrival of summer, the opening of the season for barbeuks and aniseed pétanques, reunion with friends because the holidays mark the end of the day. tip of their nose. And you know what ? This year you are just about to experience… real life. Get up, have lunch, go to work, call your mother at noon, come home at 5 p.m., wash yourself, have dinner, watch a movie with the lady or the gentleman, then … go to bed, then … start again, again and again, strongly Saturday for the aperitif at Jean-Mi, rest on Sunday because anyway what week, and we leave for a tour the following week. So this is life? Wow what a bother, where we realize the frantic pace of an NBA season when we take the trouble to follow it a little bit.
To summarize a few sentences closer to the beginning of personal therapy than a survival tutorial, let’s say that a few days / weeks will probably be necessary to get used to it, in order to put yourself in the shoes of a human being ” normal ”, who sleeps and eats at reasonable hours, who lives and who benefits from his family, his friends. Especially since we don’t even know… even when all this beautiful mess will resume, so we might as well change our habits as quickly as possible. Hang in there.
