Sunday, February 04, 2007

sleep

You know what I love about sleep?

As soon as your head hits the pillow, it's like the day begins to soften and seem less important, and maybe less bad...

The little disappointments that happen every day begin to leave your mind, dropping off, one, then another, then another...

Your body relaxes...

And pretty soon, you are gone...

And then you dream...

And when you dream, you have courage to do the things you can't in real life. Things happen that you've always wanted, or maybe never even thought about, but they happen and sometimes it's really amazing, but alwas surprising.

Maybe if you mess up in the first dream, well, so what. There will be another after that to try again, because in your dreams the first never existed and you are free to live again. No regrets here.

And the things you really want most, they happen here, and it's the best feeling. Uncomparable, in fact.

And when you wake up, you wake with hope because for those moments, you felt what it's like to have the things you've always wanted. And that feeling, the one I won't even begin to describe, it is your motivation.


Good night, sweet dreams.

Love, Jennifer

1 comment:

Morgan said...

i've thought about that before. the sinking ship dream will always stick in my mind, not because its what i wanted, but i never knew how much emotion i could feel in a dream. i miss her, you know who i'm talking about.