Let The Child Sleep.

I used to be one of those kids who made rewards out of necessities. You're feeling thirsty? You can’t drink water until you finish this assignment you've been working on. You remembered to call a loved one back? You can't until these 5 micro tasks are finished. You want to pee? You can't until you actually understand what this paragraph means. You want to meet and chill with your friends? You can't until you achieve this academic milestone. You want to sleep? You can't- you. can't.

Somewhere along the way, I think in one way or the other, we programme ourselves to believe that how worthy we are of just being equals how much we're able to do. And when this ability gets questioned by efforts that produce no results, there comes a cruel peep. A cruel, cruel, peep at yourself - the child in yourself. Disgust at the supposed inability, anger at the assumed disability, and horror at the presumed incapability. You - 𝘺𝘰𝘶 - want to sleep?

It's okay.

The darkness has long since descended.

Let the child sleep.