As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today
If you lost 2 hours daily, how would you restructure your day?
Back in March, I wrote about the idea of adding two additional hours on each day. Today, I wanna take things in the opposite direction and I imagine but the world would be like if we only had a 22 hour day
It’s amazing sometimes to think about how significant some seemingly small alterations in our everyday world would be. I’ve heard that the Earth, being 93,000,000 miles away from the sun, is it just the perfect position to support human life. If the Earth was just a few million miles closer to the sun, the planet would be excessively hot and uninhabitable. If the Earth was a few million miles further away from the sun, it would be frozen and likewise uninhabitable. Furthermore, I remember in the 1994 Ken Burns documentary Baseball, one of the sports writers talked about how differently the game of baseball would be if bases were 92 feet apart instead of 90 feet: batting averages and scoring would plummet, while pitching statistics would skyrocket. I have to imagine that were days have a 22 hours long instead of 24, it would be a significant alteration to our day-to-day lives.
I have to think that if I only had 22 hours in a day instead of 24, unfortunately the first thing I would probably sacrifice would be sleep. Yes, sleep is fun, it’s essential for human life. I know all of this, but I also know that the reality is is it’s one of the big time-sucks in the life of the average human. But perhaps even a bigger question would be, with a day being two hours shorter, would humans even typically need eight hours of sleep every night? Could we get by on seven hours, or even six? 
But more than sacrificing sleep, I think what I would be willing to give up even more would be phone/screen time. There been studies done where scientists have concluded that there is less activity going on in the human brain when one watches television, than there is when one is sleeping. And this is to say nothing about smartphone/tablet addiction. As an aside, Phred keeps recommending that I read The Anxious Generation. Some of the studies, she says, are eye-opening. But brain scans and psychological studies aside, I know that I waste way too much time on my phone. Heck, I’m writing this very entry on my WordPress mobile app right now… 
One would have to think that in a world with a 22 hour day, everything would be different. I would have to assume that the average workday would be shorter. Would it be reduced to seven or even six hours as opposed to eight? I’m really not sure. But I would hope we would have shorter work days along with a shorter day in general. Sadly, knowing how businesses of the 21st-century operate, we would probably still be stuck doing eight hours a day, five days a week. Obviously some jobs require even more hours per day and per week than that. 
Thanks for stopping by Rebuilding Rob. Be sure to like, 👍 comment and subscribe to my blog below. It’s greatly appreciated! Also, feel free to follow me on social media as well! Check out my most recent posts as well as some earlier, related posts
- Rob’s Retro Movie Review: This is Spinal Tap (1984) – The Movie That Scaled to Eleven
- A Death in the Family (And My Disposable Income): My Life in Comics
- The Supporting Cast: Navigating the Eras of Male Friendship
- Life is What Happens: A Look Back at My Non-Existent 2025 Vision
- The Moment I Walked Inside a Hallmark Movie
AI art courtesy of Chat GPT.
The article “Rob and the 22 hour day” first appeared on Rebuilding Rob.
Designed with WordPress
Rebuilding Rob 
Leave a comment