It’s been a week since I came back from my holidays. Since then, I have never had a decent night’s sleep. I either tossed and turned in bed the whole night, then fall asleep towards dawn for a couple of hours, and then I am wide awake again. Or, I will doze off fitfully at three or four am, woke up at dawn and can’t get back to sleep again.

I don’t remember suffering from jet lag in my younger days. I could even sleep on the plane then. But nowadays, I can’t sleep on the plane, and I need a long time to get over my jet lag. This is one of the reasons why travelling does not appeal to me these days.

Imagine you go on a two weeks holiday, and when you come back, you took just as long to recover from the jet lag. Or you go on a holiday and half the time you are feeling tired. And by the time you get over your jet lag, it is time to come home. I am sure you would ask yourself why you bothered. But, luckily for me, it was a ten weeks home-stay holiday, so it wasn't so bad.

There are so many suggestions on how to get over a jet lag. One of the more common suggestions is to adjust your watch to the time of your destination, the minute you get on the plane. From there, you sleep and wake up according to the local time, so that by the time you arrived at your destination, you have already adjusted to the local time. But that won’t work if you are like me, can’t sleep on the plane.

Anyway, our body reacts differently. Mine seems to have a mind of its own, and would not listen nor react to the remedies. I guess, age plays a major role in jet lag too. I will just have to let nature takes it course. Let my body get over the jet lag at its own time.

For those who travel constantly, you will understand that sometimes you get very tired after a trip not because the trip was taxing but because you have a problem adjusting to the time difference, and getting over the jet lag.

There might be some truth in this. I don’t remember feeling jet lagged when I went to Benalmadena.

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