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the truth about fairytales

Sleep is something that I crave that I cannot get. There is nothing more peaceful than laying in your own bed, wrapped in blankets, and just falling asleep. Sleeping takes you away from your reality into a fantasy of your own imagination. Sleep gives you a break from all of the hardships that you are facing. What happens when all you want to do is sleep, but you cannot seem to?

I lay awake every night wondering about what is going on in my life and the rest of the world. It is truly annoying, having the path to sleep right in front of you, but there is a boulder that keeps you from going. Sleeping should not be hard, because I have been exhausted from the day's end. I lay awake at night, staring at my ceiling, wondering about myself and everything that I have been through. Worry is what keeps me awake at night. It is the fine line between departure and peace. 

Sometimes, I wish I could just get pricked by a spindle on a spinning wheel like Sleeping Beauty, but fairytales do not always come true like we want them to. There is no such thing as a true happily ever after until you actually open yourself up to the possibility. Fairytales have happy endings, and we deserve the same happy endings in our own lives. The ironic thing about fairytales and reality is that there is always a villain, there is always a sad backstory, and the happy ending does not come until the very end when the villain is destroyed. So what if all this time, we are living during the worst scenes of our own fairytales, only to find that our happy ending is coming sooner than we thought? 

I do not believe that everyone has the same happy ending. Some people will get married, some people will have babies, some people will finally get their dream jobs, but it all takes time. We have to learn how to survive the downfalls to rise back up again. We have to face our villains with open arms and embrace the difficult journey. Not everyone is going to get where they have dreamed of going, but some people will eventually. Sleep is our hero, and worry is our villain. 

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