Sleep Away

Waking up everyday to life is a recurring nightmare to some. To me sometimes too. Maybe that is why the homeless and the aimless sleep so much... attempting to sleep away life? Nothing to do and wanting to do nothing, they prefer the tastelessness of nothingness - though they are not there to taste it when asleep. They don't exactly have a deathwish - though they are not enthusiastic about life either. Maybe they just want to get it over with "naturally" - and die and unite with the bliss of nothingness forever without waking up. Theylive like ghosts flitting randomly in the background - not really alive and not realy dead. The sad part is all they want is True Happiness, and it is obvious that it eludes them, whether sleeping or not. The "pleasure" of sleep is only fleeting - we have to wake up. If sleep is for rest before we wake up, then perhaps our waking up is for waking up more and more to life's lessons - till we attain Enlightenment.

-Zeph's Journal