#16 Aurora Borealis

Have you ever woken up and wondered why you are awake and what you are going to do for the next 16 hours before crawling anxiously back under those comforting sheets at midnight?

Why couldn't we just stay in bed for the next 16 hours instead? We could eat Japanese sushi take-outs, watch endless movies together, listen to the Carpenters, and read Archie comics.

We could be the two-headed monsters living in bed and under soft lamp lights.

But no, we have to grow up. And that is why I drag myself awake every morning and shock my brains with caffeine. So I won't have to feel the pain of going through crap, of wasting my life on crap, of knowing that I should be free.

Free to live... Free to live for something.