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Be

I lie awake in my bed at night,

Not to think, but to

Be.

My mind emerges from its protective shell and silently makes its way down a pathway that leads to nowhere.

No real thoughts are happening, just tiny irrelevant notions of time and space.

Blink, breathe, sense my heart beat, tilt my head slightly to the left on my pillow,

Be

It's extraordinary how the worst day of your life can either be prolonged or subsided just by lying on a mattress. Is it anything more than that?

For now I will not tell you because I have somewhere to

Be

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