What keeps you awake at night?

I read a piece on Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in the FT yesterday, and the bit where she was asked ‘What keeps you awake at night? Her response made me chuckle She said, ‘Injustice. I worry about the number of poor people in the world and I want to make a difference. Look at what is happening in the Middle East now.’

After sniggering and chuckling to myself, I started to imagine Mrs Okonjo-Iweala sitting up in her King size bed, head in hand, sick with worry about all those poor people in the world. It seems so contrived that one person would think themselves the solution to such a mammoth problem.

But you know what? I like the thought of it. I admire that even though she may not literally be tossing and turning in her bed with concerns about the millions living on less that a dollar a day, she can boldly say that each day, she goes to work to help make a difference.

As someone who has slept very little in the past year or so, nothing can keep me awake when I can be sleeping, so I’ve got nothing remotely exciting in response. But each morning when I wake up, one of the first thoughts on my mind are my God, my son, my husband, my work – and most mornings it’s in that order. Oddly enough there’s particular people I think of at specific times of the day. In the last month or so, I always think about the young girl I mentor at around 8am in the morning on my way to work…

As a sort of Thursday randomness, tell me what random things keep you awake at night, is it a late night/ early morning call from a love interest, fearful and harrowing thoughts of a meeting or boss you have to face the following day?