Trying too hard?

When you're so tired and so sleepy, but it is 3:15am in the morning and you've been lying in bed for the past five hours, you start to wonder if sleep is one of those things where the harder you try, the harder it is to succeed.

And then your alarm clock rings at 5:30am and you heave yourself out of bed and you feel alright for most of the day until just after dinner when you get that drowsy feeling you sometimes get after you eat a good meal but this time the drowsiness just doesn't go away.

And then you decide you really do have to sleep, no matter what else you needed to do tonight, now that it's almost 10:30pm and you look at your bed and you're nervous all of a sudden because you're worried that tonight might be another night like last night where you lie in bed and lie in bed and try and try to sleep but never succeed and then by the time you get up tomorrow morning you'll basically be a walking zombie of yourself and that's not the face you want to show to your friends and teachers at school or to the professors and admissions officers at the university reception scheduled for tomorrow evening.

So your fingers are crossed while you brush your teeth and you hum yourself a lullaby and try to sleep.