Another sleepless night with thoughts parading around in my head like Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. One trailed after another in a succession as brightly and elaborately decorated as any float could be. Just as soon as one would clear my thoughts another would be right behind it. How I wish at times sleep would come to me as easy as the thoughts that keep me awake. Seems the harder I try not to think, the more thoughts come.
I even tried replacing one thought with another, trying to bottleneck them, confuse myself hoping that it would stop. I did succeed in confusing myself, but I failed at stopping the thoughts, they came like a tidal surge before a hurricane. Pulling my pillow over my head, pressing it hard against my head trying to not think. I tried and tried to distract myself, shaking my foot, reading, listening to the radio, still the thoughts persisted and the night drug on slowly. No sleep tonight.
I resigned myself to the fact that I was not going to sink into a restful slumber so I decided to take a shower and put on a pot of coffee and go fetch the paper. Funny how miniscule my problems are when I read about events going on around the world, wars, droughts, famine, sickness and the list just keeps getting longer and longer. New fuel for thoughts I guess, something else to keep me awake at night thinking about.
As I sat and read the paper and drinking my coffee and knowing that what I am reading is not much different than what I read the day before and will not be much different when I read it tomorrow. You would think by now that we would learn from history. Guess I will mull it over in bed tonight.
Later...
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