"A Beautiful Sleep"

To sleep means to rest. 

To be motionless. 

To be inactive. 

To pause.

To a busy body, to sleep is a timely break; a cessation, a juncture where one can, after a day of long work, leave off a tiring labor.

More so, a sleep is a retreat from life's numbing sameness, a withdrawal from a tedious repitition. A farmer, for instance, who meddles on the field all the days of his life is silenced solely by the sound of his sleep. His slumber thus becomes a breather, his only relief from a seemingly futile wakefulness.

Friedrich Nietzsche is right. "Sleeping is no mean an art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."

BUT, to sleep is more than just a quiescent.

Watching my son sleeps makes me realize that it is an ethereal repose: (a) personal, (b) formless and (c) spiritual.

Personal since I know nothing of what is going inside. The rainbows and the unicorns are all part of something magical. No matter how hard I try to examine his exclusive world, his spellbinding kingdom is no place for public scrutiny. In his sleep lies his privacy. It is only he, the dreamer therefore, who understands the very landscape of his reverie.

Formless and unbodied since imagination is always unfolding, never bound to any material confinement. Herein, his thoughts and emotions color the canvas of his fantasy. Unique as it is shapeless, attractive as it is unstructured, the content of his sleep then, in all its signification, is a gradual disclosure of his visionary creation.

Spiritual since to sleep is to surrender to an unforeseen futurity, a submission to a far greater truth that, in a way, encompasses the unknown. In such a state, my son entrusts his dormancy to a reality that is neither agreed empirically nor is worthy of intellectual clarification. Even so, it is in his deep sleep that he finds a way to commune with something or someone of utmost worthiness. 

So, what makes a beautiful sleep?

The question is as good as the examiner. For he who does not find answer to this query has never ever seen a child sleeps.

23.12.2019

11:33PM

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