username: Bleating Ram
kalon name: Mardav
what do they do when they can't sleep [700 word limit]: What do you do when you can't sleep? Read a book, drink some warm milk? Maybe tea instead? Turn on some songs, write a story? I heard some people even count sheep, but I don’t have any sheep around to count so it seems like a silly idea to try. I don't like warm milk, I don't like tea, I can't write very well, and reading just isn't my thing. I've had plenty of suggestions from friends and family, try this, drink that, take this, eat that. Nothing helped. I thought I'd be destined for no sleep, like some sort of curse with no cure to break it. Then I found it, my perfect solution. I walk. Though not alone, I'm too scared of the dark to walk at night alone. The dark holds all sorts of scary monsters doesn't it? The Boogeyman, Dracula, Werewolves. Ooh it's too scary to think about. They could be anywhere you know, just lurking in the dark, waiting for you so they can pounce. I'm scaring myself just thinking about it! So I had to come up with a solution because walking around my home gets repetitive you know?
So I decided I'd bring along Sergeant Stuffing with me on my nighttime adventures. Please don't laugh at me, but he's a stuffed cow with a little red bow tie. I've had him since I can remember and he’s always been there through all the tough times. I put him in my backpack and we go walking until I get tired and we have to head home. Having Sergeant Stuffing around makes me feel brave, like I don't have to be afraid of the monsters in the dark or anything. Sometimes our walks take thirty minutes, sometimes they can take hours. But the nights I walk are the nights I sleep the best when we get back home, it's just always crummy whenever it's too wet or too cold to go walking. So I enjoy the times I can go walking because then I can go home with my friend and fall asleep almost instantly, dreaming of grand adventures where I can be brave knight or a hero or someone who isn't so scared of the monsters.
It’s nice walking at night, it’s always so peaceful because there’s hardly anyone awake at the hours I walk. There’s just these quiet noises from owls and bugs and the creek. It’s so strange to think it’s the same place as the loud and noisy day time where everyone’s bustling around and there’s all these loud noises you have to listen to every day. It’s like a whole new world when you go out at night, it’s so peaceful. You can just walk around listening to the frogs and the crickets, it’s kind of like music you know? Not anything like Beethoven or Bach but it’s still pretty, like nature’s own music.
Usually by the time we make it back home I’m worn out and ready to sleep, so Sergeant Stuffing and I will crawl into bed and it normally doesn’t take that long for me to fall asleep. It’s really nice you know? But I don’t want to recommend it to anyone else, than everyone would be out walking at night and I don’t think it’d stay so peaceful and quiet for long. Everyone would want to talk with one another and it’d end up just as loud and noisy as it is during the daytime. I want it to be my own little thing. You could call me selfish, but I really just want it to be for me only. I don’t want to have to share that nighttime world with anyone else.
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kalon name: Mardav
what do they do when they can't sleep [700 word limit]: What do you do when you can't sleep? Read a book, drink some warm milk? Maybe tea instead? Turn on some songs, write a story? I heard some people even count sheep, but I don’t have any sheep around to count so it seems like a silly idea to try. I don't like warm milk, I don't like tea, I can't write very well, and reading just isn't my thing. I've had plenty of suggestions from friends and family, try this, drink that, take this, eat that. Nothing helped. I thought I'd be destined for no sleep, like some sort of curse with no cure to break it. Then I found it, my perfect solution. I walk. Though not alone, I'm too scared of the dark to walk at night alone. The dark holds all sorts of scary monsters doesn't it? The Boogeyman, Dracula, Werewolves. Ooh it's too scary to think about. They could be anywhere you know, just lurking in the dark, waiting for you so they can pounce. I'm scaring myself just thinking about it! So I had to come up with a solution because walking around my home gets repetitive you know?
So I decided I'd bring along Sergeant Stuffing with me on my nighttime adventures. Please don't laugh at me, but he's a stuffed cow with a little red bow tie. I've had him since I can remember and he’s always been there through all the tough times. I put him in my backpack and we go walking until I get tired and we have to head home. Having Sergeant Stuffing around makes me feel brave, like I don't have to be afraid of the monsters in the dark or anything. Sometimes our walks take thirty minutes, sometimes they can take hours. But the nights I walk are the nights I sleep the best when we get back home, it's just always crummy whenever it's too wet or too cold to go walking. So I enjoy the times I can go walking because then I can go home with my friend and fall asleep almost instantly, dreaming of grand adventures where I can be brave knight or a hero or someone who isn't so scared of the monsters.
It’s nice walking at night, it’s always so peaceful because there’s hardly anyone awake at the hours I walk. There’s just these quiet noises from owls and bugs and the creek. It’s so strange to think it’s the same place as the loud and noisy day time where everyone’s bustling around and there’s all these loud noises you have to listen to every day. It’s like a whole new world when you go out at night, it’s so peaceful. You can just walk around listening to the frogs and the crickets, it’s kind of like music you know? Not anything like Beethoven or Bach but it’s still pretty, like nature’s own music.
Usually by the time we make it back home I’m worn out and ready to sleep, so Sergeant Stuffing and I will crawl into bed and it normally doesn’t take that long for me to fall asleep. It’s really nice you know? But I don’t want to recommend it to anyone else, than everyone would be out walking at night and I don’t think it’d stay so peaceful and quiet for long. Everyone would want to talk with one another and it’d end up just as loud and noisy as it is during the daytime. I want it to be my own little thing. You could call me selfish, but I really just want it to be for me only. I don’t want to have to share that nighttime world with anyone else.
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