SHE

 

She was walking along the beach and the waves were gently touching her feet. They were in no rush and so was she.  Her hair was swaying with the cool breeze and her face was shining in the warm sunrays falling from behind the blue clouds. She usually hums her favorite tunes when she is out in nature enjoying herself. Somehow, she is quiet today. She seems to be lost in her thoughts, occasionally looking around to see if anybody is swimming in the water. After a while, she decided to take a nice swim as the tides picked up a little pace. She always enjoyed swimming against the tide and being pushed by them towards the shore. She felt quite relaxed as she was gently cradled by the waves. She was floating on the sea, literally and metaphorically. For a few moments, she fell asleep. She didn’t notice that a huge wave was fast approaching her. By the time she realized the wave rush and she could turn over, she was engulfed in it and was pushed further inside the sea. She couldn’t catch her breath and she immediately woke up in panic and opened her eyes. She felt quite heavy in her chest and sighed in relief and murmured to herself “Ughh…not again! What the hell was I doing sleeping in the sea anyways!” She rolled over, taking the pillow over her head and tried falling asleep again. The details of the dream were becoming loud and clear in her mind. She was trying hard to not think about the dream and what it meant but the more she tried, the more she was stressing about the dream. She is partly conscious analyzing the details of her dream and partly asleep falling into another dream. She is seeing and thinking about all kinds of things with no order whatsoever. She was at sea preparing her business pitch for her afternoon meeting. She was suddenly flying towards her high school with her laptop bag on and she was feeling lighter and lighter. She occasionally flew downwards towards the earth to gain more thrust and fly further higher. She landed in a strange place, but her mother was cooking some food to take for her grandfather who passed away a few years ago. She was so happy to see him, and she was talking to him fondly. She rolled over again, and she told herself, “Areeey! Grandpa is no more, and am I dreaming again? Will this stupid mind shut down and let me sleep peacefully?”. She reached out to her mobile phone to check the time. It was 4:30 AM. She set her alarm to wake up around 6:30 AM in the morning and she realized she had two more hours to sleep. She dozed off again and after a while, she felt the pressure to relieve herself and she had to go and use the toilet. She couldn’t get up. She just stood there trying to control herself. She didn’t want to go because the toilet was not clean. She was irritated. The urge to relieve herself got intense and she started running helter-skelter in search of a clean toilet. She ran towards the sea again and a police patrol car nearby saw her and started ringing the siren and announcing she should not move any further. She kept going further and further into the water and the siren kept ringing louder and louder. She couldn’t hold herself anymore and she suddenly woke up to realize it was 6:30 AM and she really had to get up and pee. She shut the alarm and her train of thoughts to start her day as usual.