Let's Pretend This Doesn't Actually Happen To Me That Often

Sometimes you have those days when you just feel shattered. You’ve had a long, hard week, done a lot of work, exhausted your mental capacities, and by the time the day crawls toward its end you’re just really, really tired.

You’re thinking about going to bed. Bed sounds nice, and it’s getting pretty damn late.

Besides, you have to be well-rested tonight, to keep up with all your plans for tomorrow and the wild social life you lead.

Your IM conversation with your boyfriend begins to look like this:

When you look around your room, your tiny sleep-deprived mind has been struggling so hard to stay conscious that it begins to hallucinate. 

After you manage to clear your head of the disturbing delusions caused by your mental exhaustion, you logically arrive at the conclusion that you need to sleep.

The only thing keeping you awake now is your glowing laptop screen. So you go to switch the laptop off, thinking you’ll be in bed in mere seconds.

 Disparaged and mentally broken, you drag your pathetic tired body to bed and lie there in the dark. But you can’t sleep, even though your mind and body are hopelessly begging for it.

You lie there in the dark, eyes wide open, staring at the blue glow of the computer screen which is reaching across the room to you and turning the surrounding darkness a weird blue-grey. 

You can’t be sure, but in your exhausted and tormented state, it very much seems that your laptop is mocking you.