2 lives
Sometimes I feel live 2 completely different lives between my awake and my sleep time. During my sleep, and especially when I sleep for more than 8 hours, I always dream of you, and it is always the same narrative, that you went through a near death episode, but alive and kicking now and all of us are doing a better job at taking care of you. And the reason I say it is a separate life is because it is really convincing. During the time I'm asleep, that life where you are alive feels absolutely real. The rest of the story changes, but the backdrop is always the same. The story this time was all of us going on a trip where we have a guide taking us around a park for a tour. Must have been inspired by this movie "A Real Pain" that I watched, which already reminded me of you. The park looked really pretty and I got lost for a moment and had to run and catch up with you guys. And when you guys noticed I was missing, you stopped for a break and you were having a smoke ...