A couple of years and I'll be buying that walking cane
Remember when you were little and sleeping or just lying in bed were so boring... so boring in fact it was occasionally used as punishment? "Go to your room and lie down until I call you". Remember the silence in your bedroom feeling like big heavy weight wearing you down when all you wanted to do was go go go? Remember how you saw your mother or father retreat to their bedroom to take a nap (in the middle of the day!) or read a book just because? Not because they had to but because they wanted to? How boring it is to be an adult I used to think. I would never grow up to be so boring I resolved.
It's 2007, Saturday night, 31 years since November 1975. I am lying in bed, awake with my eyes closed, I can feel the soft comforter and the sheets hugging my toes. "This is heaven", I'm thinking "I need to lie down more, I need to spend more time in bed. Next time in the afternoon, instead of the couch, I will just come up here and lie in bed. I will just read or maybe even fall asleep. Just as long as I can be here and not move. No movement and no noise."
Yeah, totally lived up to that resolution.
Posted at 11:01 PM on March 11, 2007
Ha ha. You said it all.