Aftermath of flow

This weekend, I was in flow state for two days straight. It was an euphoria of continued creation as well as progress in life. I might have viewed it as having no life once, but not anymore. Going out is not the be all and end all of life at this stage.

The sore muscles all over my body comes as a consequence of staying in a flow state for two days straight though. They added to the unexpected drowsiness I felt today when both the mental exertion and my body’s need for repair clocked in a great 3 hour nap after I got home from work. This coming from a guy who’s record for staying awake is 52 hours straight (The most recent all-nighter was one that clocked in at 38 hours). It seems that I can survive mental and physical exertions by themselves, but when both happens together more sleep is needed. That’s a downside for going into flow state that I have to consider from now on. It makes sense when I look back on my life on similar days. You can go on staying awake, but it’s not really efficient.

At least I learned one good thing out of the physical exertion. Swinging a baseball bat should be able to increase your wrist girth. I found it out after inspecting all the sore muscles today and found soreness in a place I thought only tendons and bone exist. It is a good exercise for the whole forearm in general and works the inferior rotary muscles in-between the two bones.

So between baseball and bowling, I might have a chance to actually increase the girth. Which is when I decided to log my progress. I measured my wrist at a specific point based on skin wrinkles and logged it for future references. Today, they are 16.3 cm in circumference.